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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes föddes den 29 august 1809 och dog den 7 oktober 1894 - amerikansk läkare och författare.
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 The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. |
| Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. |
| 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 |
| It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God. |
| 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 |
| Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future |
| 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! |
| A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. |
| To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. |
| 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. |
| The Amen of nature is always a flower. |
| Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance. |
| A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used |
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