12 ordspråk av John Andrew Holmes
John Andrew Holmes
 A child enters your home and makes so much noise for twenty years that you can hardly stand it: then departs leaving the house so silent that you think you will go mad |
| A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness |
| A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness |
| At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage |
| 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 as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe. |
| 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 as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe. |
| It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. |
| Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both |
| There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. |
| 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. |
| When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches |
| Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. |
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