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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... trust , The shield of the offender . IN MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 13 Talleyrand , 1754 . The inner world of thought and the outer world of events are alike in this , that they are both brim- ful . There is no space between consecutive ...
... trust , The shield of the offender . IN MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 13 Talleyrand , 1754 . The inner world of thought and the outer world of events are alike in this , that they are both brim- ful . There is no space between consecutive ...
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... trust ; but if everybody is to be pulling at everything he thinks is a hair , our grandchildren will have to make the discovery that it is a hair - spring , and the old Anglo - Norman soul's- timekeeper will run down , as so many other ...
... trust ; but if everybody is to be pulling at everything he thinks is a hair , our grandchildren will have to make the discovery that it is a hair - spring , and the old Anglo - Norman soul's- timekeeper will run down , as so many other ...
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... TRUST . There are but two biographers who can tell the story of a man's life . One is the person himself ; the other is the Recording Angel . The autobiog- rapher cannot be trusted to tell the whole truth , though he may tell nothing ...
... TRUST . There are but two biographers who can tell the story of a man's life . One is the person himself ; the other is the Recording Angel . The autobiog- rapher cannot be trusted to tell the whole truth , though he may tell nothing ...
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... trust ! Till the last angel rolls the stone away , And the new morning brings eternal day ! DEDICATORY POEM . 2. H. C. Andersen , 1805 . Winter is past ; the heart of Nature warms Beneath the wrecks of unresisted storms ; Doubtful at ...
... trust ! Till the last angel rolls the stone away , And the new morning brings eternal day ! DEDICATORY POEM . 2. H. C. Andersen , 1805 . Winter is past ; the heart of Nature warms Beneath the wrecks of unresisted storms ; Doubtful at ...
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... trust the more ! Through all the wanderings of the path , We still can see our Father's door ! THE CROOKED FOOTPATH . 14. Timothy Dwight , 1752 . These are my blossoms ; if they wear One streak of morn or evening's glow , Accept them ...
... trust the more ! Through all the wanderings of the path , We still can see our Father's door ! THE CROOKED FOOTPATH . 14. Timothy Dwight , 1752 . These are my blossoms ; if they wear One streak of morn or evening's glow , Accept them ...
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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.