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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

To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#forty #forty years #hopeful #more #old

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#called #first #first time #hears #himself

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#become #come #courtesy #disagreeable #flatter

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#any #conscious #each #face #friend

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#air #bad #fresh #fresh air #good

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#all day #break #bubble #day #evening

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#any #attachment #calls #constitution #free

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#grow #old #playing #quit

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them! ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#die #fame #few #magic #music