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Oliver Wendell Holmes has 184 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
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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.…
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I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
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We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's…
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The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white…
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I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it…
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Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
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What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions…
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The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it…
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Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the…
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The best servant does his work unseen.
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See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.
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Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial…
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The gospel teaches us that true beauty is more than skin-deep. A young woman whose countenance is aglow with both happiness and…
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Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.
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Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.
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Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.
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All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.
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If beauty is only skin deep, look really, really hard.
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Sometimes I wonder if I'm sexy enough. When I walk into a singles bar with my "fashionable" shirt, "fashionable" slacks, and a…
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Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human…
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Beauty is more than skin deep.
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