"Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now……" — Walt Whitman
"Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life"
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Walt Whitman
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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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None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its…
— Mary Astell
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a…
— Edmund Burke
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
— Samuel Butler
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The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully,…
— Albert Einstein
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The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious…
— David Hume
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Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.
— Samuel Johnson
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An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live,…
— Lord Chesterfield
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The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are…
— Charles Spurgeon
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It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old.…
— Francis Bacon
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Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men. It refers the course of celestial bodies to the…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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