Selections from the Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes: Arr. Under the Days of the Year, & Accompanied by Memoranda of Anniversaries of Noted Events & of the Birth Or Death of Famous Men & WomenHoughton, Mifflin & Company, 1889 - 50 pages |
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... died , 1873 . Reason may be the lever , but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world . Even " sentimentality , " which is sentiment overdone , is better than the af- fectation of ...
... died , 1873 . Reason may be the lever , but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world . Even " sentimentality , " which is sentiment overdone , is better than the af- fectation of ...
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... died , 1599 . Poets , like painters , their machinery claim , And verse bestows the varnish and the frame ; Our ... dying close , Where waves on waves in long succession pour , Till the ninth billow melts along the shore . 17. Benjamin ...
... died , 1599 . Poets , like painters , their machinery claim , And verse bestows the varnish and the frame ; Our ... dying close , Where waves on waves in long succession pour , Till the ninth billow melts along the shore . 17. Benjamin ...
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... dying fellow - creature , with a voice that touched the heart as no other had done since the Scotch peasant was laid down to slumber in the soil his song had hallowed . MECHANISM IN THOUGHT AND MORALS . 8. Samuel Butler , 1612 . Talk ...
... dying fellow - creature , with a voice that touched the heart as no other had done since the Scotch peasant was laid down to slumber in the soil his song had hallowed . MECHANISM IN THOUGHT AND MORALS . 8. Samuel Butler , 1612 . Talk ...
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... died , 1564 . Conceit is just as natural a thing to human minds as a centre is to a circle . But little - minded peo- ple's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes ' conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine ...
... died , 1564 . Conceit is just as natural a thing to human minds as a centre is to a circle . But little - minded peo- ple's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes ' conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine ...
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... don't require you to make fine speeches expressing your sense of un- worthiness ( lies ) and returning all the compliments paid you . THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST - TABLE . 1. John Robinson died , 1625 . And these were FEBRUARY 26-29.
... don't require you to make fine speeches expressing your sense of un- worthiness ( lies ) and returning all the compliments paid you . THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST - TABLE . 1. John Robinson died , 1625 . And these were FEBRUARY 26-29.
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Page 46 - I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Page 43 - But little-minded people's thought move in such small circles that five minutes' conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve. An arc in the movement of a large intellect does not sensibly differ from a straight line. Even if it have the third vowel as its centre, it does not soon betray it.
Page 76 - The snowdrop, bearing on her patient breast The frozen trophy torn from winter's crest; The violet, gazing on the arch of blue Till her own iris wears its deepened hue; The spendthrift crocus, bursting through the mould Naked and shivering with his cup of gold.