Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
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ancestry features good limbs marks persons signal sit stillness vulgar work
Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.
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.
lived tall
It was a tall young oysterman lived by the riverside.
enthusiasm faith life worth
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
courtesy flatter friendship nearer necessary relation tact
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.
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
achievement inevitable mode pass
The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.
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.
achievement attempt bird eye hand hit humility infinitely living love neighbor thinking thy vain
With all humility, I think, ''Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.'' Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing, you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
calamity disaster great
A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.