American - Writer | August 29, 1809 - October 7, 1894
Love prefers twilight to daylight.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
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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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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
TalentWorldGeniusReadyKnowOpen
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
LifeFaithEnthusiasmWorthLiving
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
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Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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