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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
edited by - 1995 - 251 pages
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The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature : Being the ...

William James - Conversation - 1902 - 604 pages
...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....not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins. Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another,...
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Resurrection: A Novel

graf Leo Tolstoy - Atonement - 1902 - 574 pages
...Absolute surrender to the animal self, as is customary with the cattle who have no imagination and ' Do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins' ; (2) Absolute surrender to the higher self, and the elimination of all such animal desires as hold...
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Markland Or Nova Scotia: Its History, Natural Resources and Native Beauties

Robert Randall McLeod - Natural resources - 1903 - 780 pages
...Walt Whitman: " I think I could turn and live with animals, They are so placid and self-contained, They do not sweat and whine about their condition,...not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, No one is dissatisfied — not one is demented with the mania of owning things." M •s. It is a sad...
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The English Novel: A Study in the Development of Personality

Sidney Lanier - English fiction - 1903 - 330 pages
...for they are about the only animals in the world to whom these items would 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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Song of Myself ...

Walt Whitman - American poetry - 1904 - 126 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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Human Work

Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Economic development - 1904 - 406 pages
...with the 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....is dissatisfied; not one is demented with the mania for owning things. " Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived a thousand years ago. "...
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Human Work

Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Economic development - 1904 - 404 pages
...sick discussing their duty to God. "Not one is dissatisfied; not one is demented with the mania for owning things. " Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived a thousand years ago. ^ " Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth."x —WHITMAN....
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A Selection from the Great English Poets: With an Essay on the Reading of Poetry

Sherwin Cody - American poetry - 1905 - 628 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 industrious over the whole earth. So they show their relations to me, and I accept them; They bring...
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Little Journeys to Homes of Great Scientists, Volume 1

Elbert Hubbard - Scientists - 1905 - 284 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. But we should note this : Whitman merely wanted to live with animals,...
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Charlotte Wood Slocum Lectures

1905 - 220 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." The Ideal Man 43 There is a brother to the ox for you, only the "hoe"...
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