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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. The Deacon's Masterpiece or the Wonderful One-Hoss Shay

Quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Deacon’s Masterpiece or the Wonderful One-Hoss Shay

There’s nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

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