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 great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? -Walt Whitman

 

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 great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?


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This quote is just one of 41 total Walt Whitman quotes in our collection. Walt Whitman is known for saying '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 great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?' as well as some of the following quotes.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

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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.

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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

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