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Brief about Oliver Wendell Holmes: By info that we know Oliver Wendell Holmes was born at 1970-01-01. And also Oliver Wendell Holmes is American Writer.

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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Tags: Nap, Time, Until

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.

Tags: Few, Flag, Willing

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

Tags: Fools, Men, Wise

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

Tags: End, Practical, Theory

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Tags: Calling, Great, Greatly

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.

Tags: Another, Give, Why

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Tags: Faith, Life, Living

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Tags: Memories, Old, Sense

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

Tags: Good, Heavenly, Minded

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Tags: Men, Religion, Women

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

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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

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The Amen of nature is always a flower.

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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.

Tags: Genius, Often, Talent

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

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

Tags: Old, Sometimes, Young

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Tags: Himself, Old, Time

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Tags: Daylight, Love, Twilight

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Tags: Mad, Often, Stupidity

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

Tags: After, Light, Truth
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