"I am large, I contain multitudes." — Walter Whitman

Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of man

Source: The Human Seasons (1818)

Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Source: Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII (1624)

It is not what a lawyer tells me I MAY do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I OUGHT to do.

Source: Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)

Beware the fury of a patient man!

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden, volume 1

Men are but children of a larger growth.

Source: All for Love; Or, The World Well Lost (1677)

For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Source: Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself (1892 edition)

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