"Life as we call it, is nothing but……" — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings."
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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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When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny,…
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Everything necessary to the full and complete expression of the most boundless experience of joy is mine now.
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It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith…
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God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are…
— Arthur Tappan Pierson
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If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously…
— Joyce Brothers
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The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that…
— John Garrett
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Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a…
— Thomas Huxley
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There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l…
— Claude Debussy
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Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Oh let us continually keep faith in exercise, till it be entirely swallowed up in the boundless ocean of beatific…
— George Whitefield
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It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had…
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