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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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There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but…
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What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which…
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I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting…
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The God who guides the stars, unhasting and unresting, will as assuredly fulfill what He has promised.
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Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever,…
— Edwin Arnold
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Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward…
— Max Planck
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Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind…
— Philip Larkin
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Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always…
— George MacDonald
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