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Great Quotes by Walt Whitman
- Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.
- Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.
- 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…
- I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me…
- 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…
- I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance and the many…
- We all have great things on our bucket lists like skydiving, seeing the Northern Lights etc, but what about simply falling in love? Isn't that…
- More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How fit a name…
- O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how much one can…
- I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to…
- I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold, And…
- Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of…
- 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…
- Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned…
- I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
- And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
- A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
- To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
- Produce great men, the rest follows.
- The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city…
- I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I did not know…
- Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income…
- Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din of…
- 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…
- I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them…
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong