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Stronger Lessons

by Walt Whitman, 1892

Have you learn'd lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you?
Have you not learn'd great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you? or who treat you with contempt, or dispute the passage with you?

Published in Leaves of Grass
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