All Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
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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The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
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Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
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Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
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Age
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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Wisdom
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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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.
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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
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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.
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The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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