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Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#activity #consists #pool #running #stagnant

Have the courage to act instead of react. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#courage #instead #react

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#listen #privilege #province #speak #wisdom

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#good #heavenly #minded #people #some

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. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#although #being #beyond #civilized #got

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#end #faith #i #last #pursue

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#cincinnati #comfort #maker #rough #sounds

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#cushioned #evenings #feet #home #love

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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