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Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Inspirational, Life, Death. 53 Copy quote. Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Happy Friday, People, Disrespectful.
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- The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- “A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.
- “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.
- “Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.
- “What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?”
Famous As: Physician & Poet. Born On: August 29, 1809. Died On: October 7, 1894. Born In: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Died At Age: 85. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was an American polymath, poet and writer. He is regarded as one of the finest writers of his era by his contemporaries.
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Written 16 September 1830 in response to reports that the U.S.S. Constitution was to be scrapped, it is generally credited with arousing public sentiment sufficient to save the ship, which remains...Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high;And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky;Beneath it rung the battle shout, and burst the cannon's roar;The meteor of the ocean air shall sweep the clouds no more.Full text online at Wikisource Those kind friends who suggest to a person suffering from a tedious complaint, that he "Had better try Homoeopathy," are apt to enforce their suggestion by adding, that "at any rate it can do no harm." This may or may not be true as regards the individual. But it always does very great harm to the community to encoura...
Be polite and generous, but don't undervalue yourself.You will be useful, at any rate; you may just as well be happy, while you are about it.
First published in The Atlantic Monthly(May 1859)Nobody talks much that doesn't say unwise things, — things he did not mean to say; as no person plays much without striking a false note sometimes.What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!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.I once inhaled a pretty full dose of ether, with the determination to put on record, at the earliest moment of regaining consciousness, the thought I should find uppermost in my mind. The mighty mu...
I talk half the time to find out my own thoughts, as a school-boy turns his pockets inside out to see what is in them. One brings to light all sorts of personal property he had forgotten in his inv...
Before they know it, time runs out. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Inspirational, Life, Death. It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Life, Faith, Insightful. It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Death, Doors, People. To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Death, Mean, Dying.
