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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... faith , and a faith which breeds heroes is better than an unbelief which leaves nothing worth being a hero for . THE PULPIT AND THE PEW . 13. S. P. Chase , 1808 . There is one disadvantage which the man of phil- osophical habits of mind ...
... faith , and a faith which breeds heroes is better than an unbelief which leaves nothing worth being a hero for . THE PULPIT AND THE PEW . 13. S. P. Chase , 1808 . There is one disadvantage which the man of phil- osophical habits of mind ...
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... . THE SEASONS . It's faith in something and enthusiasm for some- thing that makes a life worth looking at . THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST - TABLE . 16. Gaspard de Coligni , 1517 . The brain is FEBRUARY 12-15 12. Abraham Lincoln, 1809. ...
... . THE SEASONS . It's faith in something and enthusiasm for some- thing that makes a life worth looking at . THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST - TABLE . 16. Gaspard de Coligni , 1517 . The brain is FEBRUARY 12-15 12. Abraham Lincoln, 1809. ...
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... Faith is burning , Long as Freedom's altars glow ! See the hero whom it gave us Slumbering on a mother's breast ; For the arm he stretched to save us , Be its morn forever blest ! ODE FOR WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY . 23. G. F. Händel , 1685 ...
... Faith is burning , Long as Freedom's altars glow ! See the hero whom it gave us Slumbering on a mother's breast ; For the arm he stretched to save us , Be its morn forever blest ! ODE FOR WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY . 23. G. F. Händel , 1685 ...
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... faith hammered in like a nail , by authority ; another class must have it worked in like a screw , by argument . THE PULPIT AND THE PEW . 7. Robert Browning , 1812 . A poem must be kept and used , like a meer- schaum , or a violin . A ...
... faith hammered in like a nail , by authority ; another class must have it worked in like a screw , by argument . THE PULPIT AND THE PEW . 7. Robert Browning , 1812 . A poem must be kept and used , like a meer- schaum , or a violin . A ...
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... Faith such as bids the martyr die , The prophet's glance , the master's hand To mould the work his foresight planned . JUNE INAUGURATION HYMN . 1. Death of the Prince Imperial , 1879 . I suppose every day of earth , with its hundred ...
... Faith such as bids the martyr die , The prophet's glance , the master's hand To mould the work his foresight planned . JUNE INAUGURATION HYMN . 1. Death of the Prince Imperial , 1879 . I suppose every day of earth , with its hundred ...
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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.