Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
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enthusiasm faith life looking quote-of-the-day worth
It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.
enthusiasm faith life worth
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
action judged life man passion peril required share
Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
bundle great life
Life is a great bundle of little things
fig life side simplicity
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.
awful begins bid brothers chorus dead death destinies glory good great joy lent life note orchestra passion powers seen sound unseen youth
Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death / of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.
ability action life man passion peril required share
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
alike fatal homicide language legitimate life results treatment violent word
Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide --that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life --are alike forbidden.
achievement inevitable mode pass
The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.
chips contrived critics
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the chips that were left.
casting democracy hand shakes vote
The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
certainty generally human longing
The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
alike husband last wife
Husband and wife come to look alike at last
bath few music soul twice week
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.