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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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Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
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Easy crying widows take new husbands soonest; there's nothing like wet weather for transplanting
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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
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Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.
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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
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Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him
Events
Every idea is an incitement...Eloquence may set fire to reason.
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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
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Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
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For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.
AgeingBirthdayPoetryRetirementSeasonsTime
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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God's plan made a hopeful beginning. But man spoiled his chances by sinning. We trust that the story will end in God's glory. But, at present, the other side's winning.
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Good Americans when they die, go to Paris.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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Historic continuity with the past is not a duty, it is only a necessity
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How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!
Reputation
Husband and wife come to look alike at last
MarriageMen and WomenRelationships
I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.
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