Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as...

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as...

Death tugs at my ear and says: Live, I am coming.

Death tugs at my ear and says: Live, I am coming.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man...

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man...

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

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

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

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that...

The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that...

Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them.

Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than...

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than...

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it...

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it...

A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot...

A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot...

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has...

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has...

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the...

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the...

Age, like distance, lends a double charm.

Age, like distance, lends a double charm.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.