"Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue……" — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace."
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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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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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Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
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More Birthplace Quotes
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one of 45 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of…
— Mark Twain
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Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and…
— Bayard Rustin
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Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.
— Henry Anatole Grunwald
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Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of…
— Og Mandino
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The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit,…
— E. O. Wilson
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We are committed to the Common Civil Code, Article 370 and building of a magnificent temple at the birthplace of…
— Venkaiah Naidu
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At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.
— Jules Michelet
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If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.
— Martin Luther
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Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.... Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to…
— Brené Brown
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Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.
— George Eliot
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Awareness is the birthplace of possibility. Everything you want to do, everything you want to be, starts here.
— Deepak Chopra
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Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment; it is the birthplace of everything we're hungry for.
— Brené Brown
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