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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes: 9

  • Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

    Jr.
  • Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

    Sr.
  • Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

    Sr.
  • There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

    Sr.
  • Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

    Jr.
  • Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

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

    Sr.
  • Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

    Sr.
  • Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

    Jr.