"The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything."

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"The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything."

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"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Nothing is so aggravating than calmness."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise."

George Washington Carver, American Scientist

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"Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread."

Charles Nicole, French Scientist

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"Out of the water, I am nothing."

Duke Kahanamoku, American Athlete

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Explore more quotes by Walt Whitman

"We were together. I forget the rest."

Love

"Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul."

Philosophy

"Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much? Have you practis'd so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,) You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self."

Literature

"I loafe and invite my soul I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass."

Nature

"My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth.I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands,I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them."

Spiritual

"And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero."

Man

"WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleas'd with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over; I stand apart to hear-it never tires me. To you, your name also; Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?"

Identity

"The future is no more uncertain than the present."

Future

"Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?"

Desire

"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

God