Have you learned 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 reject you, and insult you, and smite you?

Leaves of Grass

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Poem: 'By Blue Ontario's Shore', Section 11

Date / Period

1860 (originally in 'Leaves of Grass' preface)

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45476/by-blue-ontarios-shore

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