Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
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Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
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Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
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Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.