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Best Quotes by Walt Whitman
- Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it…
- I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of the same; and…
- We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally…
- 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…
- The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.
- 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…
- I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
- The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or…
- Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the…
- I refuse putting from me the best that I am.
- this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, thee…
- Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the…
- Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons: It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep…
More Best Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. — Aristotle
- Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — Aristotle
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle