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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - From the Advice category:
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - From the Beauty category:
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - From the Listening category:
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - From the Passion category:
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - From the Problems category:
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)
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