"Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays……" — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise."
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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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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there…
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the…
— Honore de Balzac
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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
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A friend in power is a friend lost.
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A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
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