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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
«I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor»
«The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.»
«Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
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controversy, equalize, equalized, equalizes, equalizing, Wise Men
«To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
aesthetic, although, civilized, potentially, preferences, preserves, shocked
«A good and true woman is said to resemble a Cremona fiddle: age but increases its worth and sweetens its tone»
«Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
breeding, features, steadiness, stillness