#we

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#fortune #given #good #good fortune #great

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#end #faith #i #last #pursue

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#every #history #library #only #should

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#chips #contrived #critics #her #invented

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#game #genial #plays #pleasing #praise

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#days #friend #greeting #his #homage

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#certainty #certitude #cocksure #many #test

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#before #chuckle #eighty #longer #make

Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos. ↗

— Harold Edward Holt

#australians #due #gum #our #trees

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned. ↗

— John Holt

#advance #future #instead #know #knowledge