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**My Mosaic Poem:** I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. And again, and again, in secret communion with my own spirit, would I demand the questions "Who is he? -- whence came he? -- and what are his objects?" But no answer was there found. And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of A large mirror, -- so at first it seemed to me in my confusion -- now stood where none had been perceptible before; and, as I stepped up to it in extremity of terror, mine own image… advanced to meet me with a feeble and tottering gait. I looked ; -- and a numbness, an iciness of feeling instantly pervaded my frame. My breast heaved, my knees tottered, my whole spirit became possessed Was it, in truth, within the bounds of human possibility, that what I now saw was the result, merely, of the habitual practice of this sarcastic imitation?
 * My Philosophy Statement:** I want to help people and I believe that everyone I know has come into my life for some reason, whether to make me a better person, or to realize things about myself. I believe in only being the person I am, not the person others want me to be, I will be true to myself and never change based on other people’s opinions.
 * I believe there is good and bad in everyone, **you can change who you are if you really want to**
 * We judge ourselves based on **what other people see**
 * **Fear** shapes the way a person is
 * What separates the **weak from the strong**, is the ability to persevere with hope
 * **Enjoying your life** while you live it and being happy is more important than anything else

In time we hate that which we often fear,
==== This is a sharp time, now, a precise time-we live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled the world. Now, by God's grace, the shining sun is up, and them that fear not light will surely praise it, ==== ==== But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime. ====

media type="youtube" key="NO2nqcN3EGg" height="344" width="425" It was a mystery all-insoluble; nor could I grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered. I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt; there //are// combinations of very simple natural objects which have the power of thus affecting us, still the analysis of this power lies among considerations beyond our depth. I am not the one with secrets. What is your meaning? There are secrets in every corner of this village. Do you not feel it? Do you not see it? It is no shame to have a dirty face- the shame comes when you keep it dirty. In me didst thou exist -- and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself **.
 * Are you upset you can't see? I see the world not as you see it.

I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it, Be Who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. there was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now, And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. for every hour and change corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind, from breathless noon to grimmest midnight see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight, does not reside in nature, but in man, or in a harmony of both. It is necessary to use these pleasures with great temperance And sparkling evermore, The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. All that breathe Will share thy destiny. As the long train Of ages glides away, the sons of men, ....Shall one by one be gathered to thy side By those who in their turn shall follow them.

Awe-stricken, and with a creeping shudder, I extinguished the lamp, passed silently from the chamber, and left, at once, the halls of that old academy, never to enter them again, I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence. He walked towards the trees, and under them, leaving behind him the big sky, the whisper of wind voices in the wind bent wheat, Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

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