10 inspirational oliver wendell holmes quotes on success

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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.
Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

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