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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
«The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Growth,
Motivational,
Progress
«It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Enthusiasm,
Faith,
Life
| Keywords:
enthusiasm
«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.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Courtesy,
Friendship,
Relationships,
Tact
| Keywords:
authorize, authorized, authorizes, authorizing, be intimate, come into, courtesies, courtesy, disagreeable, disagreeable person, flatter, flat out, intimates, intimate with, intimating, nearer, necessary, relation, tact
«Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.»