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Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes

American Writer August 29, 1809 – October 8, 1894

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Oliver Wendell Holmes quote: "Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes quote: "Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not..."
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes quote: "Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us."
Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes quote: "Love prefers twilight to daylight."
Love prefers twilight to daylight. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
Oliver Wendell Holmes quote: "Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of..."
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes quote: "Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes quote: "It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that..."
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes quote: "Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing..."
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes quote: "But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes quote: "Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a..."
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool. Oliver Wendell Holmes

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