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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.?
→ As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
→ Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
→ Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.
→ There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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→ Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
→ Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
→ Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.
→ Genius is eternal patience.
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→ He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
→ Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
→ Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
→ A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.
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One of these may be attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.. Which one?
→ Health is not valued till sickness comes.
→ The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
→ Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
→ A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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Which one of these belongs to Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.?
→ The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.
→ Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
→ The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
→ Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.?
→ What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
→ The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons.
→ Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
→ None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr..
→ Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
→ Please all, and you will please none.
→ If you see any thing in yourself which may make you proud, look a little further, and you will find enough to make you humble.
→ Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man's companion knows of his shortcomings is from his apology.
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