“The Amen of nature is always a flower.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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A goose flies by a chart which
“A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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A mind that is stretched by a
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Category: experience
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Beware how you take away hope from
“Beware how you take away hope from any human being.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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The main part of intellectual education is
“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Fresh air is good if you do
“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
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Category: good
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Through our great good fortune, in our
“Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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A few can touch the magic string,
“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!”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Category: music
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Truth is tough. It will not break,
“Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Where we love is home – home
“Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I have no respect for the passion
“I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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