“We convince by our presence.”
Inspirational
“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”
GreatAll Quotes by Walt Whitman
“Produce great men, the rest follows.”
Great“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
Truth“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
Art“Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.”
Freedom“I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”
Best“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”
Death“Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.”
Nature“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.”
Business“And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”
Death“The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.”
Beauty“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 in the whole world.”
Great“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 has been a mean sleep.”
Time“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”
Best“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.”
Cool“Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.”
Time“I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.”
God“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 earth.”
Best“Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.”
Time“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.”
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