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There are 108 quotes for the author Oliver Wendell Holmes

Quotations 61 to 80 of 108 Results Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6

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.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used

The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

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