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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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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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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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it
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And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.