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If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
Category: Adversity Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
Category: Age Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
Category: Age Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Category: Age Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Category: Apologies Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.
Category: Autumn Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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 implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
Category: Belief Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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.
Category: Carpe Diem Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.
Category: Cities Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
Category: Coffee and Caffeine Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or that our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than we suspect of what we think.
Category: Conformity Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons.
Category: Equality and Difference Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.
Category: Experience Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Category: Friendship Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.
Category: Gardens Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Where we love is home,
Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Category: Home Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
Category: Integrity Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Category: Language Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Category: Learning Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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