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Oliver Wendell Holmes - From the Activity category:
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Oliver Wendell Holmes - From the Aging category:
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Oliver Wendell Holmes - From the Aging category:
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Oliver Wendell Holmes - From the Aging category:
Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside us. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Oliver Wendell Holmes - From the Communication category:
Talking is like playing the harp; there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Oliver Wendell Holmes - From the Competence category:
The one thing that makes the true artist is a clear perception and a firm, bold hand. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Oliver Wendell Holmes - From the Complaining category:
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Oliver Wendell Holmes - From the Effort category:
The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Oliver Wendell Holmes - From the Fire category:
Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Oliver Wendell Holmes - From the Ideas category:
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Oliver Wendell Holmes - From the Individuality category:
It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Oliver Wendell Holmes - From the Insight category:
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Oliver Wendell Holmes - From the Language category:
Every language is a temple, in which the soul of those who speak it is enshrined. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Oliver Wendell Holmes - From the Language category:
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Oliver Wendell Holmes - From the Life category:
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Oliver Wendell Holmes - From the Music category:
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Oliver Wendell Holmes - From the Words category:
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Oliver Wendell Holmes - From the Words category:
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
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