Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them:...

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them:...

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death...

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death...

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

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

The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward.

The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which...

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which...

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its...

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its...

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...

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason.

Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how...

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how...

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

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...

Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.

Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.

I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I...

I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I...

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

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

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

It is far from easy to determine whether she (Nature) has proved to man a...

It is far from easy to determine whether she (Nature) has proved to man a...

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the...

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the...

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too...

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too...

A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable,...

A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable,...