"Love prefers twilight to daylight." — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Love prefers twilight to daylight."
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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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More Daylight Quotes
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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband…
— Honore de Balzac
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness…
— Joseph Addison
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved…
— Victor Borge
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I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the…
— Jeff Bridges
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Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.
— H. L. Mencken
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Land! An island! We devoured it greedily with our eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared…
— Thor Heyerdahl
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Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in…
— George Henry Lewes
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I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and…
— Galileo Galilei
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Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile…
— Johannes Kepler
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It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Over the past month, Muslims have fasted, taking no food or water during daylight hours, in order to refocus their…
— George W. Bush
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