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Success. Is not the position w...

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

The difference between gossip ...

The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Blood is a destiny. One's geni...

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

If wine tells truth - and so h...

If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Knowledge and timber shouldn't...

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

These are the hands whose stur...

These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green; This is the scholar whose immortal penSpells the first lesson hunger taught to men; These are the lines that heaven-commanded Toil Shows on his deed, - the charter of the soil!

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

On every stem, on every leaf,....

On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Fame is the scentless sunflowe...

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

But the moment you turn a corn...

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

And silence, like a poultice, ...

And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

The ultimate good desired is b...

The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

While we've youth in our heart...

While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Many ideas grow better when tr...

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

We expect more of ourselves th...

We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Apologizing - a very desperate...

Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

The foliage has been losing it...

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.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

The wind blows out, the bubble...

The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

To brag little, to lose well, ...

To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

The joy of life is to put out ...

The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Imitation is a necessity of hu...

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

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