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Inspirational Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- The best servant does his work unseen.
- Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
- Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live.…
- To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
- Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
- The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
- The Amen of nature is always a flower.
- Love prefers twilight to daylight.
- Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
- A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
- Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.
- I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his…
- A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
- Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
- Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
- Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us…
- Science is the topography of ignorance.
- Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.
- Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.
- Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings.
- Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
- Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
- Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them.
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- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
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- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
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