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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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 Sr.
Inspirational, Life, Death

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Love, Inspirational, Life
Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “A Mortal Antipathy”, p.246, Reprint Services Corporation

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Inspirational, Funny, Spiritual

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Inspirational, Business, Wisdom Experience
1857-8 The Professor at the Breakfast Table, ch.10.

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Inspirational, Eye, Science
Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.144, Reprint Services Corporation

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Inspirational, Life, Success
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ronald K. L. Collins (2010). “The Fundamental Holmes: A Free Speech Chronicle and Reader - Selections from the Opinions, Books, Articles, Speeches, Letters and Other Writings by and about Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.”, p.21, Cambridge University Press

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