Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

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Beware how you take away hope from any human being. by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

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Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face. by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.

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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...

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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our... by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hope... by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother... by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light. by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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And if I should live to be by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

And if I should live to be

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of... by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Have the courage to act instead of react. by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

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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?

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming. by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out... by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true. by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a... by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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