O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hu…

Walt Whitman
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O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do. ✨ Walt Whitman (2013). Song of Myself: The First Edition of 1855 + The Death Bed Edition of 1892, p.188, e-artnow
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