#ten

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. ↗

— Horace

#contented #contented mind #every #every man #happiness

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp. ↗

— Marjorie Holmes

#child #feeling #hand #kitten #like

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#because #before #die #getting #know

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#force #groups #i #i see #inconsistent

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#answer #asking #attempting #cannot #existence

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#mad #man #often #saves #stupidity

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

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

#often #original #though #thought #times

Don't be "consistent" but be simple true. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#simple #true