The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings.
Grasp it firmly, it stings not.


Part iii, canto ii. Quoted by Walt Whitman in Roaming in Thought. - Lucile (1860)

Robert Bulwer-Lytton Quotes

The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.

The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.

The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.

The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.