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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated Mar 2023

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Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

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Getting Old quotes

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The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.

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Fall Season quotes

The bigot is like the pupil of the eye, the more light you put upon it, the more it will contract.

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A man's mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.

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Self Development quotes

Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them.

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Inspirational quotes

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There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

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Long Distance Friendship quotes

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.

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One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!

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Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

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New Beginnings quotes

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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.

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Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind, or miss it - but talking is like playing at a mark with the pipe of an engine; if it is within reach, and you have time enough, you can't help hitting it

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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

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Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all

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Laughter quotes

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Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

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Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all

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Laughter quotes

Feelings quotes

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

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For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

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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.

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Common Sense quotes

I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.

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Simplicity quotes

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