Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Quote

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)


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.