Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death / of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and…

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.

The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.

Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.

Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.

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...

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

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

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

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...

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often...

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often...

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.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to...

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to...

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each...

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each...

The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward.

The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward.

When in doubt, do it.

When in doubt, do it.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

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...

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those...

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those...

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.