Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes About Inspirational
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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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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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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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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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I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- Born: August 29, 1809
- Died: October 7, 1894
- Occupation: Physician
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