43 quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

“It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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

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“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“A new untruth is better than an old truth.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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““Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!”” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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