Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes About Soul
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The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.
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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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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.
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Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- Born: August 29, 1809
- Died: October 7, 1894
- Occupation: Physician
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