266 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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    But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.

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    The mind like any other organism gradually shapes itself to what surrounds it, and resents disturbance in the form which its life has assumed.

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    Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

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    The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.

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    Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

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    In whose banks we deposit out notes Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in arrears by lending them minutes and charging them years.

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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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    I credit my youthfulness at eighty to the fact of a cheerful disposition and contentment in every period of my life with what I was.

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    Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

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