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Letter "O" » Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
«Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.»
«The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
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constantly, earlier, fossilized, more or less, productions, rediscover, rediscovered, rediscovering, rediscovers
«A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.»
«Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
affirm, affirming, idealist, persist, persist in, predestined
«The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.»
«The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.»
«A page of history is worth a pound of logic.»
«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?»
«Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.»
«Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, / As the swift seasons roll!»
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