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«Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.»
«The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
abilities, destruction, Graves, Human resources, In America, natural ability, natural resource, natural resources, resources, utilize, utilized, utilizing
«The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.»
«A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.»
«A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Fulfilment
| Keywords:
asking, attempting, fulfil, The Object of
«But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
breathing, breathings, fold, folded, folding, fold up, rose, sweets
«The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.»
«Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.»
«Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
At The Gates, Gates, key, keyed, master, master key, opens, the Master
«The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
acquisition, acquisitions, facts, intellectual, in the main, learning, main
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