"How many people live on the reputation of……" — Oliver Wendell Holmes

"How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!"

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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166 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes has 166 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
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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