Walt Whitman Quotes
All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it.
Walt Whitman
Quotes to Explore
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Brother, I am too old to go again to my travels.
Charles II
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I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
Euripides
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Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
William Hazlitt
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Wise men hear and see as little children do.
Lao Tzu
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It was a lover and his lass,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
That o'er the green corn-field did pass,
In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring.
William Shakespeare
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I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I know the horrors of war: no gains can compensate for the losses it brings.
Adolf Hitler
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Those who don't build must burn.
Ray Bradbury
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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
Russell Baker
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals
Angela Davis
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Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.
Abraham Lincoln
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Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents it to the mind ... there is an immensity of facts which justify us in believing that the atoms of matter are in some way endowed or associated with electrical powers, to which they owe their most striking qualities, and amongst them their mutual chemical affinity.
Michael Faraday