Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. quotes - page 7

The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
Boston State-house is the hub of the solar system. You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crow-bar. View quote
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. View quote
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I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer. View quote
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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them! View quote
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks. View quote
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Every calling is great when greatly pursued. View quote
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Wake in our breast the living fires, The holy faith that warmed our sires Thy hand hath made our nation free To die for her is serving Thee. View quote
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Lean, hungry, savage anti-everythings. A modest Request. View quote
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Where go the poet's lines Answer, ye evening tapers Ye auburn locks, ye golden curls, Speak from your folded papers. View quote
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The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
And when you stick on conversation's burrs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs. View quote
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One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation, evermore. View quote
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A general flavor of mild decay. View quote
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One unquestioned text we read, All doubt beyond, all fear above Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed Can burn or blot it God is love. View quote
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Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll Leave thy low-vaulted past Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea. View quote
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But Memory blushes at the sneer, And Honor turns with frown defiant, And Freedom, leaning on her spear, Laughs louder than the laughing giant. View quote
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It went to pieces all at once All at once and nothing first, Just as bubbles do when they burst. View quote
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When lawyers take what they would give And doctors give what they would take. View quote
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born. View quote
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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty. View quote
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. View quote
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The chief end of a man is to frame general ideas - and... no general idea is worth a damn. View quote
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Leverage is everything,-was what I used to say;-don't begin to pry till you have got the long arm on your side. View quote
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