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Oliver Wendell
"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing."
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"Yes, child of suffering, thou mayst well be sure, He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor! Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr"
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"Historic continuity with the past is not a duty, it is only a necessity"
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"Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man.It involves the necessity for perpetual choicewhich is the kind of labor men have always dreaded."
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"With crimson juice the thirsty southern day, Sucks from the hills where buried armies lie, So that the dreamy passion it imparts Is drawn from heroes' bones and lovers' hearts"
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Oliver Wendell
"Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide -that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life -are alike forbidden."
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Oliver Wendell
"When the last reader reads no more."
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Oliver Wendell
"A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve."
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Oliver Wendell
"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."
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"Age, like distance, lends a double charm."
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Oliver Wendell
"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."
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Oliver Wendell
"Literature is full of coincidences, which some love to believe are plagiarisms. There are thoughts always abroad in the air which it takes more wit to avoid than to hit upon."
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"Old Ironsides"
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Oliver Wendell
"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all."
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."
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"Man wants but little drink below, / But wants that little strong."
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