Walt Whitman Quotes

All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch).

Walt Whitman

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• I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought.

  

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• It's going to be hard. But I think that when we are in tough environments, it helps us focus more and it helps us concentrate. We're looking forward to it. We are playing with a lot of confidence right now and we believe in each other more than ever.

  

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• Dreams never wear you down.

  

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• Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness.

  

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• Brother, I am too old to go again to my travels.

  

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• Laziness isn't merely a physical phenomenon,about being a couch potato,stuffing your face with fries and watching cricket all day. It's a mental thing, too, and that's the part I have never aspired for.

  

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• I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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• The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
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• All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch).

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Truths
  • Resist
  • Surgeon