"Fresh air is good if you do not……" — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air."
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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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The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go…
— Neil Armstrong
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
— Marcus Aurelius
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If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.
— Irving Babbitt
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All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of…
— Christian Bale
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Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how…
— Albert Bandura
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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend…
— Ethel Barrymore
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under…
— Samuel Adams
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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
— Saul Bellow
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You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
— Irving Berlin
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