"There are a good many real miseries in……" — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples"
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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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When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father.…
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And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
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I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.
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I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman…
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If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he…
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I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.
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You love simply because you cannot help it.
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Every time I see the sunshine in the bright blue sky, I cannot help but think how blessed I really…
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You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others…
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We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they…
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