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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... leaves its port with sealed or- ders . These may be opened earlier or later on its voyage , but until they are opened no one can tell what is to be his course or to what harbor he is bound . 6. Epiphany . RALPH WALDO EMERSON . A holy ...
... leaves its port with sealed or- ders . These may be opened earlier or later on its voyage , but until they are opened no one can tell what is to be his course or to what harbor he is bound . 6. Epiphany . RALPH WALDO EMERSON . A holy ...
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... 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 suffers , as compared with the man of action . While he is taking an ...
... 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 suffers , as compared with the man of action . While he is taking an ...
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... leaf and flower and fruit must follow the law of race , of soil , of climate . THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST - TABLE 5. James Madison , 1751 . Every grace that plastic language knows The nameless poets its perfection owes . The rough - hewn ...
... leaf and flower and fruit must follow the law of race , of soil , of climate . THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST - TABLE 5. James Madison , 1751 . Every grace that plastic language knows The nameless poets its perfection owes . The rough - hewn ...
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... leaf in a darkened room , whereupon some name or legend springs out of the darkness in characters of fire ? There are songs all written out in my soul , which I could read , if the flash might pass through them , but the fire must come ...
... leaf in a darkened room , whereupon some name or legend springs out of the darkness in characters of fire ? There are songs all written out in my soul , which I could read , if the flash might pass through them , but the fire must come ...
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... leaves , Bright with the hues from wider pictures won , White , azure , golden , — drift , or sky , or sun . 7. William Wordsworth , 1770 . Come , take the book we love so well , And let us read and dream We see whate'er its pages tell ...
... leaves , Bright with the hues from wider pictures won , White , azure , golden , — drift , or sky , or sun . 7. William Wordsworth , 1770 . Come , take the book we love so well , And let us read and dream We see whate'er its pages tell ...
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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.