Stronger Lessons

By Walt Whitman

1819-1892

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?

DayPoems Poem No. 2210
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