• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  Walt Whitman
  American poet, essayist, and journalist 1819-1892
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. themselves
2. disputed
3. admired
4. against
5. passage
6. aside

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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? by : Walt Whitman

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