Quotes of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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“ If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace. ”

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“ Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time. ”

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“ With love comes the risk of losing it. With love comes the risk of getting burnt with it. When love burns, it consumes even the soul. ”

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“ Time is persistent, and we need to make the best of it. ”

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“ We don’t really care for things that we get easily in life. Life always needs to be served hot. ”

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“ The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ”

- Émile Zola

“ For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand. ”

- Stephen King

“ Woman is a delicate creature with strong emotions who has been created by the Almighty God to shoulder responsibility for educating society and moving toward perfection. God created woman as symbol of His own beauty and to give solace to her partner and her family. ”

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- Maggie Stiefvater

“ Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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- Nikki Rowe

“ Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ”

- Mark Twain

“ One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. ”

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“ If you grow it, they will cum. ”

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“ Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. ”

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“ And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. ”

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“ Close your eyes, take your time and listen. ”

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“ Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Where you go, I shall go; where you die, I shall die, and there will I be buried. ”

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