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Been Quotes by Walt Whitman
- Re examine all you have been told in school and in church Or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul and your very…
- This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for…
- Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially…
- Day by day and night by night we were together - all else has long been forgotten by me.
- Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! — ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then…
- At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for…
- My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write…
- Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I…
- Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
- I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before…
- I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing…
- Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach.…
- I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and…
- You have not known what you are--you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life; Your eye-lids have been the same as closed most of the…
- Once I passed through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions, Yet now of all that city…
- Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall…
- This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for…
- This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up…
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour