"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's…" — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."
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166 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes has 166 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to…
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I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the…
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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…
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The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of…
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Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart…
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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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A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment 'Roseanne' dropped out of the top ten, in…
— Roseanne Barr
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Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
— Drew Barrymore
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Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little…
— Bruce Barton
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
— Allan Bloom
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
— Lara Flynn Boyle
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It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part…
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