Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quote Explained: For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed.

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See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

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Political

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Leverage is everything-don’t begin to pry until you’ve got the long arm on your side.

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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Love

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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Physician

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Simple people… are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Physician

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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Physician

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Library

For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed.

For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed.

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

Leverage is everything-don’t begin to pry until you’ve got the long arm on your side.

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

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Simple people… are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.

That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst. Explain

Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel. Explain

Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.

This is probably as bad a day as the court has had on social issues since Roe vs. Wade.

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.

For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed.

For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed.

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