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There's nothing that keeps its youth,<br /> So far as I know, but a tree and truth. -
821I find the great in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,-but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. Oliver wendell Holmes
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I find the great in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes... -
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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned. -
807Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. Oliver wendell Holmes
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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact... -
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. -
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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. -
687When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman? Oliver wendell Holmes
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When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you... -
556Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Oliver wendell Holmes
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. -
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To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. -
691To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. Oliver wendell Holmes
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To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. -
571The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. Oliver wendell Holmes
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. -
700Take 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. Oliver wendell Holmes
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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. -
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. -
613Science is good furniture for one's upper chamber, if there is common sense below. Oliver wendell Holmes
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Science is good furniture for one's upper chamber, if there is common sense below. -
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. -
605Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Oliver wendell Holmes
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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. -
700Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. Oliver wendell Holmes
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Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. -
551It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. Oliver wendell Holmes
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It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. -
531I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. Oliver wendell Holmes
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. -
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Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.