A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
¶ (Attributed)
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Talking is like playing 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.
¶ (Attributed)
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
¶ (Attributed)
It is the peculiarity of the bore that he is the last person to find himself out.
¶ Over the Teacups, ch. 4 (1891)
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometiems with the wind and sometimes against it, -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
¶ The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table ch. 4 (1858)
http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/owh/abt04.html#g62
It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames ... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.
¶ The Guardian Angel
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