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"As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived."
Author:
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Category:
Ability
"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."
Author:
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Category:
Action
"Age, like distance lends a double charm."
Author:
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Category:
Age and Aging
"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."
Author:
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Category:
Books and Reading
"A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born."
Author:
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Category:
Children
"People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent.""
Author:
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Category:
Contradiction
"And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs."
Author:
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Category:
Conversation
"Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will."
Author:
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Category:
Death and Dying
"To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man."
Author:
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Category:
Doubt
"Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant."
Author:
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Category:
Experts
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