“ It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. ”
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“ Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. ”
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“ Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.- Copy
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“ Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.- Copy
“ The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. ”
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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. ”
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“ Nothing is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable. ”
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“ There's nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth. ”
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“ Beware how you take away hope from another human being ”
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“ Science is a firstrate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. ”
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“ What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred? ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.- Copy
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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. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.- Copy
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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. ”
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“ What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred? ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.- Copy
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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. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.- Copy
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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. ”
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“ Knowledge — it excites prejudices to call it science — is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.- Copy
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“ Knowledge — it excites prejudices to call it science — is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.- Copy
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“ The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer. ”
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“ You can hire logic, in the shape of a lawyer, to prove anything that you want to prove. ”
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“ Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. ”
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“ Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a 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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“ Don't ever think the poetry is dead in an old man because his forehead is wrinkled, or that his manhood has left him when his hand trembles! If they ever WERE there, they ARE there still! ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.- Copy
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“ The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.- Copy
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“ We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.- Copy
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“ Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. ”
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“ Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a 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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“ Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. ”
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