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" Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. "
Walt Whitman - Page 36
by Richard Maurice Bucke - 1883 - 236 pages
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The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art

1856 - 602 pages
...forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big lo me as any, What is less or more than a touch ? Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally...
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Studies in Literature, 1789-1877

Edward Dowden - 1878 - 542 pages
...in despair. "A slumbering woman and child convince as an university course can never convince : " " Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul." Whitman becomes lyrical in presence of the imagination attempting for itself an interpretation of the...
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Education, Volume 49

1928 - 692 pages
...theological dissertations on the difference between tweedledee and tweedledum he had nothing but contempt : "Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul." And yet of his faith he writes : "My faith is the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths. Enclosing...
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Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman - 1897 - 474 pages
...forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch ?) Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. (Only what proves itself to every man and woman is so, Only what nobody denies is so.) _1 A minute...
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Leaves of Grass: Including Sands at Seventy, Good-bye My Fancy, Old Age ...

Walt Whitman - 1897 - 484 pages
...the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch ?) Ixigic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. (Only what proves itself to every man and woman is so, Only what nobody denies is so.) A minute and...
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Lay Sermons

Earl John Francis Stanley Russell Russell - 1902 - 260 pages
...fully equipt, And beat the gong of revolt, and stop with fugitives and them that plot and conspire. Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul, (Only what proves itself to every man and woman is so, Only what nobody denies is so). I think I could...
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Song of Myself ...

Walt Whitman - 1904 - 126 pages
...the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch ?) there. Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. (Only what proves itself to every man and woman is so, Only what nobody denies is so.) A minute and...
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The Pilgrims' Way: A Little Scrip of Good Counsel for Travellers

Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1906 - 352 pages
...Dear city of Cecrops ; and wilt thou not say, Dear city of Zeus ? MARCUS AURELIUS (Long's translation) Logic and sermons never convince ; The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. WALT WHITMAN Wood-notes TTT'HOSO walks in solitude And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock...
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The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, Volume 6

1909 - 756 pages
...private and unsharable. The essence of this kind of experience ia well suggested in Whitman's lines: Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my toul. People indulge in this esoteric side of life to different degrees. Some have little to do with...
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The Expositor's Dictionary of Poetical Quotations

James Moffatt - 1913 - 252 pages
...Third (Act v. Scene 3). JOB xvi. 2. / have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. " Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul." — WALT WHITMAN. " Yes, your discourses with their glittering show, Where ye for men twist shredded...
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