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Oliver Wendell Holmes

" A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them! "

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fame , Music , Magic

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" The Amen of nature is always a flower. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nature

" Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Work , Truth

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Man , Common sense , Science , First

" Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes

People , Quick

" 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. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Man , worth , Soul

" It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes

God , Play , Lonely

" Every calling is great when greatly pursued. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Great

" 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. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Man , Time , Action , Passion , Life

" Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes

May , Eloquence , Reason , Fire

" Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Friendship , Praise

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Water , Memory , Fish

" Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Knowledge

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