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Quotations by author » Oliver Wendell Holmes
American Physician, Poet, Writer, Humorist and Professor at Harvard, 1809-1894
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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To think great thoughts, you must be heroes as well as idealists
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the 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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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light
Truth
We can forgive a man the defects of his qualities, if only he has the qualities of his defects
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We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
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We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.
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We must have a weak spot or two in our character before we can love it much
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We're not retreating, Hell! We're just attacking in different direction!
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What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds.
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What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
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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 find this but in a woman?
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When in doubt, do it.
Doubt
When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe that the ultimate good is better reached by free trade in ideas.
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When the last reader reads no more.
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Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Love
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future
Wisdom
With crimson juice the thirsty southern day, Sucks from the hills where buried armies lie, So that the dreamy passion it imparts Is drawn from heroes' bones and lovers' hearts
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