Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes

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• To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Have the courage to act instead of react.

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  Courage, Veterans Day, Fear

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• To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

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  Birthday, Time, Years

  Letter to Julia Ward Howe on her 70th birthday, 27 May (1889)

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Death

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• Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

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  Happy Friday, People, Disrespectful

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• Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

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  Love, Marriage, Missing You

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “The Poet at the Breakfast Table”, p.33, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Life, Hope, Expectations

  Valedictory address to medical graduates at Harvard University on March 10, 1858. The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume LVIII, No. 8, p. 158, March 25, 1858.

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• Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “A Mortal Antipathy”, p.246, Reprint Services Corporation

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• It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

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  Life, Positive, Wisdom

  'The Poet at the Breakfast Table' (1872) ch. 10

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• Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

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  Truth, Light

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• 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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  Inspirational, Funny, Spiritual

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• Man has his will, but woman has her way.

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  Love, Funny, Life

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 1”, p.405, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

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  Mothers Day, Mom, Hope

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.129, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.

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  Wise, Men, Way

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.114, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

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  Love, Insanity, Mind

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.42, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

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  Fall, Communication, Words You Speak

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 1”, p.125, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

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  Bullying, Two, Common Sense

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Over the Teacups”, p.148, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.

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  Sweet, Magic, Cheerful

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 1”, p.146, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

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  Stupid, Silly, Men

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1858). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.42

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• We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...

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  Fear, Men, Imagination

  "The Poet at the Breakfast Table". Book by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., 1872.

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• Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.

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  World, Trouble, Humans

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• Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.

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  Running, Ears

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• 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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  Women, Inspiration, Thinking

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “The Poet at the Breakfast Table”, p.90, Reprint Services Corporation

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• You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.

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  Genius, May, Courses

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• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspirational, Business, Wisdom Experience

  1857-8 The Professor at the Breakfast Table, ch.10.

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