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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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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Age: 85 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 29
Died: 1894
Died: October 7
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Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.
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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
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For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.
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Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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