"And silence, like a poultice, comes to heal……" — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"And silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound"
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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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More Blows Quotes
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You blows who you is.
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My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear…
— Desi Arnaz
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Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.
— Abu Bakr
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The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little…
— Catherine Bell
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I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got…
— Jerry Bruckheimer
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Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
— Dante Alighieri
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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as…
— Dante Alighieri
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No, I've always been impressed with the tremendous resilience of the American economy. I think over the years, over the…
— Dick Cheney
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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.
— Yasser Arafat
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Expose foes wit my hocus pocus flows, they froze now suckas idolize my chosen blows
— Tupac Shakur
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Always work hard, never give up, and fight until the end because it's never really over until the whistle blows.
— Alex Morgan
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