Oliver Wendell Holmes
"When the style is fully formed if it has a sweet undersong we call it beautiful and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax."
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"When the style is fully formed if it has a sweet undersong we call it beautiful and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"We must think things not words or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand if we are to keep to the real and the true."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Take your needle my child and work at your pattern it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like embroidery."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Talking is like playing on the harp there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars nor its great scholars great men."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A sick man that gets talking about himself a woman that gets talking about her baby and an author that begins reading out of his own book never know when to stop."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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