Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
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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.
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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
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Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.
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To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.
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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
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Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
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Man has his will, but woman has her way.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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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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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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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.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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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.