Tag: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it – but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be ‘consistent’.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.