The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,’The medicines of the soul
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When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman? ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving – we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it – but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred? ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
A man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
