| 56 Famous Quotes by Oliver Wendell holmes
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“For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.”
Ageing Quotes |
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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 and courtesy become.”
Courtesy Quotes |
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“Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.”
Elderly Quotes |
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“It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.”
Enthusiasm Quotes |
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“A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.”
Fulfilment Quotes |
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“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”
Growth Quotes |
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“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.”
Insanity Quotes |
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“The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."”
Medicine Quotes |
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“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”
Motivational Quotes |
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“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”
Progress Quotes |
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“Love prefers twilight to daylight”
Romantic love Quotes |
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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 and courtesy become.”
Tact Quotes |
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“A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.”
Education Quotes |
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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.”
Music Quotes |
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“Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.”
Perceptions Quotes |
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“The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.”
Books Quotes |
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“To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.”
Doubt Quotes |
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“People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?”
Humanity Quotes |
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“Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.”
Language Quotes |
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“The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.”
Prejudice Quotes |
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“Old age is fifteen years older than I am.”
Age Quotes |
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“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.”
Accuracy Quotes |
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“The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.”
Achievement Quotes |
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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: 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.”
Action Quotes |
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“The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.”
Bigotry Quotes |
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Oliver Wendell holmes Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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