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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Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no...

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no...

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:...

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

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

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility;...

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility;...

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

When in doubt, do it.

When in doubt, do it.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

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...

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

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

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

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...

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown...

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown...

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The...

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The...

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says,...

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says,...

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to...

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to...

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that...

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that...