Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
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Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.
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But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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There is no friend like the old friend, who has shared our morning days, No greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise: Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
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Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.
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Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.
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Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.
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Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.
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People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.
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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
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I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.