Quotes by John Andrew Holmes
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At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage.
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Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation ...
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
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There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
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Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both
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A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness
