"Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open……" — Walt Whitman
"Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me."
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422 Quotes by Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman has 422 quotes on this site.
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And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And…
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O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet…
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Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.
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This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.
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To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
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The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the…
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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many…
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I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at…
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Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.
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To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the…
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All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.
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What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.
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More Afoot Quotes
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one of 34 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. If the banners and flags are shifted about,…
— Sun Tzu
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As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.
— William Shakespeare
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There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so…
— H. L. Mencken
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Fast drivers can see no further than slow drivers, but they must look further down the road to time their…
— Robert Grudin
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The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth.
— Horace Kephart
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I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great…
— Helen Keller
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For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new…
— Frantz Fanon
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A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going…
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
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Let's face it, the romantic scene between the Romulan Commander and Spock [in “The Enterprise Incident”] was totally out of…
— D. C. Fontana
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The Goddess is Alive. Magic is afoot.
— Unknown Author
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Jesus came among us to show and teach the life for which we were made. He came very gently, opened…
— Dallas Willard
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I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.
— Henry David Thoreau
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