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Them Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate…
- What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such…
- 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.…
- A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all…
- I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
- Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
- Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the…
- Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
- Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust…
- Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in…
- The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction…
- Talking is like playing on the harp, there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging…
- There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.
- Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them.
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
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- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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