This is what you shall do; Love the earth and
sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every
one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy,
devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants,
argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence
toward the people,
take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or
to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful
uneducated persons and with the young and with
the mothers of families,
read these leaves in the open air every season of every
year of your life, re-examine all you have been told
at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever
insults your own soul,
and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the
richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent
lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of
your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.
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