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Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you? or who treat you with contempt, or dispute the passage with you?
Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you? or who treat you with contempt, or dispute the passage with you?
Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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- Walt Whitman
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- Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
author lifetime midpoint (1819–1892)
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 401; printed byline: Walt Whitman; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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