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13535 quotesIdeals are the worlds masters.
Ideals and Idealism
Josiah Gilbert Holland
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Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
Genius
Josiah Gilbert Holland
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Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.
Scholars and Scholarship
Josiah Gilbert Holland
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The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
Love
Josiah Gilbert Holland
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The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
Soul
Josiah Gilbert Holland
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Desire creates the power.
Desire
Raymond Holliwell
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To give your best is to receive the best.
Success
Raymond Holliwell
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The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.
Theater
Robert Holman
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
Instinct
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
Disasters
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
Age and Aging
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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And Silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound.
Silence
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.
Beauty
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
Experts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
Theory
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
History and Historians
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Controversy
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Good Americans when they die, go to Paris.
America
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!
Reputation
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Insanity
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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It cannot be helped, it is as it should be, that the law is behind the times.
Uncategorised
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Wisdom
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.
Knowledge
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Language
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
Love
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun