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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