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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes: Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
         

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.


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Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.



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



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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.



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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.



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Man has his will, but woman has her way.



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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.



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