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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Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Weep all the artful tears you like. You shall never make my hard heart the softer.
Sarah Waters
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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
Miguel de Cervantes
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All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it.
Walt Whitman