“Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.”
Source: Poems 1
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Famous Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes
Source: The Selected Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
“Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.”
Source: Guardian Angel
Source: A Mortal Antipathy
“Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!”
Source: Urania: a Rhymed Lesson
“I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.”
Source: Medical Essays
Source: Songs of Many Seasons : 1862-1874
Source: Medical Essays
“Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.”
Source: Poems 2
Source: Over the Teacups
Source: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell
Source: The Professor at the Breakfast-table: With The Story of Iris
“The best servant does his work unseen.”
Source: The Poet at the Breakfast-table: His Talks with His Fellow-boarders and the Reader
“See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.”
Source: The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes