"A person is always startled when he hears……" — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time."
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166 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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- We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it…
- I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
- We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see…
- The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to…
- I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the…
- Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
- What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings…
- The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of…
- Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart…
- The best servant does his work unseen.
- See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.
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