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«Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
associations, readily, sense of smell, sentiments, The sense
«A new untruth is better than an old truth.»
«Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
revolutions, spectacles
«Life is a great bundle of little things»
«Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind, or miss it - but talking is like playing at a mark with the pipe of an engine; if it is within reach, and you have time enough, you can't help hitting it»
«The great end of living is to harmonize man with the order of things»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Living
| Keywords:
harmonize, harmonized, harmonizes, harmonizing, Order of, The Order
«Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.»
«We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
Precepts, sake, The Teacher
«The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
actual, derived, low quality, on the whole, quantity
«An artist that works in marble or colors has them all to himself and his tribe, but the man who molds his thoughts in verse has to employ the materials vulgarized by everybody's use, and glorify them by his handling»
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