"It is far from easy to determine whether……" — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"It is far from easy to determine whether she (Nature) has proved to man a kind parent or a merciless stepmother"
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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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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
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The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.
— Rowan Atkinson
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No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and…
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The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
— William Barclay
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The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security…
— Dave Barry
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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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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
— Alfred Adler
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There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your…
— Jeff Bezos
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
— Bono
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When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to…
— Julia Margaret Cameron
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After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a…
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