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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... 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 superiority to human weakness . THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST ...
... 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 superiority to human weakness . THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST ...
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... the seat by the fire ; He had nothing to give , land , — ― the poor lord of the But he gave him a Welcome , hand ! - his heart in his - BANQUET TO THE GRAND DUKE ALEXIS . 22. Bacon , 1561 ; Byron , 1788 . Genius JANUARY 18-21.
... the seat by the fire ; He had nothing to give , land , — ― the poor lord of the But he gave him a Welcome , hand ! - his heart in his - BANQUET TO THE GRAND DUKE ALEXIS . 22. Bacon , 1561 ; Byron , 1788 . Genius JANUARY 18-21.
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... gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve . An arc in the movement of a large intellect does not sensibly dif- fer from a straight line . Even if it have the third vowel as its centre , it does not soon betray it . The ...
... gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve . An arc in the movement of a large intellect does not sensibly dif- fer from a straight line . Even if it have the third vowel as its centre , it does not soon betray it . The ...
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... give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says , and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks ? THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST - TABLE . 24. George William Curtis , 1824 . Talking is like playing on ...
... give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says , and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks ? THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST - TABLE . 24. George William Curtis , 1824 . Talking is like playing on ...
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... give back more than they borrow from the scenes which lend them their in- spiration . What was this broad stream that runs by your walls before it was peopled by the creative touch of your story - teller's imagination . It is no longer ...
... give back more than they borrow from the scenes which lend them their in- spiration . What was this broad stream that runs by your walls before it was peopled by the creative touch of your story - teller's imagination . It is no longer ...
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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.