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"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
Oliver Wendall Holmes
The works of Oliver Wendell Holmes (1892) pg. 246
Thought by a doctor in Holmes's A Moral Antipathy, the character was speaking about how love can conquer fear, fear of women, specifically.
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"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."
Oliver Wendall Holmes
As part of his literary work “The Breakfast-table” series, Oliver Wendall Holmes wrote a poem titled “Homesick in Heaven,” which poem this quote is from.
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"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
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"The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort."
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Achievement
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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
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Loneliness
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"As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived."
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Ability
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"Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features."
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Ancestry
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"Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride."
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Ancestry
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"Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families."
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"What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds."
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Dullness
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"Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!"
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Brotherhood
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"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."
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Insights
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"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. 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."
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Adversity
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"Man has will, but woman has her way."
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Will And Will Power
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"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve."
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Achievement
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"Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children."
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Children
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"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other."
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Controversy
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"Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance."
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Elegance
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"Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow."
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Language
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"I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea."
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Medicine
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"Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks."
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Conventionality
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