quote · Words worth keeping
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Attribution & collection notes
- Author or tradition
- Walt Whitman
Attribution: attributed - Country attributed
- Not established
A country attribution does not establish the earliest origin. - Historical period
- c. 1855 AD · industrial
author lifetime midpoint (1819–1892); not necessarily a composition date.
The voice behind the words.
Personal byline in the 1911 Optimist anthology. Basic source-backed attribution identity; lifetime and independent authorship verification not established here.
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