wisdom

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This is what you shall do:

love the earth and sun and the animals,
despise riches, give alms to
everyone that asks,
stand up for the stupid and crazy,
devote your income and
 labor to others,
hate tyrants…
have patience and indulgence towards the people,
take off your hat to nothing known or unknown
or to any man or number of men,

go freely with powerful uneducated persons
and with the young and with the 
mothers of families,
read these leaves in the open air
every season of every 
year of your life,
re examine all you have been told
at school or church or in 
any book,
dismiss whatever insults your own soul,
and your very flesh shall be 
a great poem
and have the richest fluency not only in its words
but in the 
silent lines of its lips and face
and between the lashes of your eyes
and in 
every motion and joint of your body.






Walt Whitman.