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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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A Manual of Ethics

John Stuart Mackenzie - Ethics - 1897 - 484 pages
...So, too, a mere animal is incapable of such a fall as we find in man. As Walt Whitman says, — . " They do not sweat and whine about their condition,...thousands of years ago ; Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth." All this is, no doubt, very creditable to the lower animals ; yet it...
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Practical Idealism

William De Witt Hyde - Idealism - 1897 - 364 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,...thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth." When we pass from Arnold to Whitman, from the gospel of the inanimate...
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Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman - Composers - 1897 - 474 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. So they show their relations to me and I accept them, They bring me tokens...
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Leaves of Grass: Including Sands at Seventy, Good-bye My Fancy, Old Age ...

Walt Whitman - 1897 - 484 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,...kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is res]>ectable or unhappy over the whole earth. So they show their relations to me and I accept them,...
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Satan's Invisible World Displayed: Or, Despairing Democracy

William Thomas Stead - New York (N.Y.) - 1897 - 338 pages
...is it conformable to Walt Whitman's enthusiastic outburst of admiration for the cattle of the field: "They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins;" neither do the leaders of Tammany or their counterparts in the Republican ranks. Hence results not...
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The Humane Review, Volume 1, Issues 1-4

Animal welfare - 1900 - 426 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,...thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth." That is the spirit that we want to see infused into our poets when they...
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Leaves of Grass: Including a Fac-simile Autobiography, Variorum Readings of ...

Walt Whitman - 1900 - 554 pages
...sometimes half the day long." 1860 reads " I stand and lool; at them sometimes an hour at a stretch." They do not sweat and whine about their condition...thousands of years ago ; Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth So they show their relations to me, and I accept them ; 690 They bring...
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Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman - 1900 - 540 pages
...sometimes half the day long." 1860 reads " I stand and look at them sometimes an hour at a stretch." They do not sweat and whine about their condition...not one is demented with the mania of owning things ; Xot one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago ; Not one is respectable...
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Life of Mrs. Booth: The Founder of the Salvation Army

William Thomas Stead - 1900 - 270 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;...do not make me sick discussing their duty to God." Which is, no doubt, true. But Catherine Mumford, after all, counts for more in the making of the world...
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Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman - 1900 - 594 pages
...sometimes half the day long." I36o reads " I stand and look at them sometimes an hour at a stretch." They do not sweat and whine about their condition...not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins ; S' They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God : J Not one is dissatisfied — not one...
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