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" I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with... "
Evolution and Human Values - Page 117
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The Study of Animal Life

John Arthur Thomson - Zoology - 1892 - 398 pages
...the idea that animals are always careful and anxious, or forced to continual struggle and shift. " They do not sweat and whine about their condition,...thousands of years ago ; Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. " WALT WHITMAN. CHAPTER V SOCIAL LIFE OF ANIMALS I. Partnerships —...
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Favorite Selections of Julia and Annie Thomas

English poetry - 1892 - 222 pages
...and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained: I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition;...nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago. ******* O living always — always dying! O the burials of me, past and present! O me, while I stride...
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The Self-revelation of God

Samuel Harris - God - 1892 - 592 pages
...and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition,...dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of ownin<* things. O * Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of ycars»ggo,...
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Grass of the Desert

Ralph Radcliffe-Whitehead - Art - 1892 - 204 pages
...and live with animals, they are so placid and selfcontained, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition,...do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, No one is dissatisfied, no one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another,...
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Practical Ethics

William De Witt Hyde - Conduct of life - 1892 - 232 pages
...the animal feels probably as keenly as we do. Of happiness or unhappiness they probably know nothing. They do not sweat and whine about their condition....not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. Animals can be trained to do right, but they...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 43

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1884 - 872 pages
...they are about the only animals in the world to whom these words will apply ; 'For,' says Whitman, 'not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things.' But suppose he were taking one of his favorite night strolls in the woods of Bengal rather than of...
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The Life of Captain Sir Richd F. Burton, Volume 2

Lady Isabel Burton - Explorers - 1893 - 730 pages
...and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained. I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition...one is demented with the mania of owning things.' " I am by no means going to tell you that his Catholicity was a lifelong, fixed, and steady thing,...
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The Altruistic Review, Volume 3

1894 - 444 pages
...and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd. I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition,...thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. Whitman's poetry of nature is entirely distinct from that of any other...
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The Bookman, Volume 48

Book collecting - 1919 - 858 pages
...solace in brotherhood with the beasts, and for reasons not irrelevant to Kenko's own inner strife: They do not sweat and whine about their condition;...make me sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole world. In his capacity as Buddhist priest, Kenko broods drearily...
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Poet Lore, Volume 7

Literature - 1895 - 656 pages
...and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition,...do not make me sick discussing their duty to God." When asked again, he cries impetuously, — " I give nothing as duties, What others give as duties,...
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