Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
bundle great life
Life is a great bundle of little things
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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
cheerful far hopeful
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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With all humility, I think, ''Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.'' Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing, you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
life positive wisdom
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
life faith insightful
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.
enthusiasm faith life worth
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
education obvious seems time
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.
lived tall
It was a tall young oysterman lived by the riverside.
bath few music soul twice week
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.
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What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.