Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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