"The worst of a modern stylish mansion is……" — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts."
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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 Ghosts Quotes
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A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
— George Matthew Adams
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Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.
— Richard Harris Barham
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On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me.…
— David Bowie
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In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.
— Jessica Alba
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I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.
— Taylor Caldwell
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The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
— Italo Calvino
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When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And…
— Adelaide Crapsey
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There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.
— Madison Cawein
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The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and…
— Francois Fenelon
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A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an…
— James M. Barrie
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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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