Quote#Beauty
I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the…
Quote byWalt Whitman · 1819–1892
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Talk to an Art-Union (A Brooklyn fragment)" (1839); later delivered as a lecture at the Brooklyn Art Union (31 March 1851) and printed in the Brooklyn Daily Advertizer (3 April 1851).
English (original)
I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.
— Walt Whitman
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