Feels the same comfort while his acrid words Turn the sweet milk of kindness into curds.
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The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Talking is like playing on the harp there is as much inlaying the hands on the strings to stop their vibrations As in twanging them to bring out their music.
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Oh for one hour of youthful joy!
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Thou say'st an undisputed thing In such a solemn way.
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Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels When the tired player shuffles off the buskin A page of Hood may do a fellow good After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin.
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