"I think that, as life is action and……" — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."
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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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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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