1. Dr. J. A. Holmes - “Never tell a young person that something can not be done. God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossible to do that thing.”

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2. Ernest Holmes - “Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.”

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3. Ernest Holmes - “Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.”

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4. F. L. Holmes - “Faith will turn any course, light any path, relieve any distress, bring joy out of sorrow, peace out of strife, friendship out of enmity, heaven out of hell. Faith is God at work.”

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5. John Andrew Holmes - “It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.”

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6. John Andrew Holmes - “Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.”

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7. John Andrew Holmes - “There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”

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8. John H. Holmes - “Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism.”

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9. John Haynes Holmes - “There must appear a spiritual and moral leadership rising above economic and political situations. Governments in both their domestic and foreign policies appeal for popular support by promises of material gain. We cannot make peace by mere appeal to greed. We must give the peoples of the world something to live for as well as something to live on.”

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10. John Hughes Holmes - “The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.”

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11. Marjorie Holmes - “A child's hand in yours — what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.”

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12. Marjorie Holmes - “There must be some deep psychological reason why we turn so instinctively toward home at this special time.... A place where every day will be Christmas, with everybody there together. At home.”

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13. Marjorie Holmes - “Thank you, God, for the dignity and beauty of self. The precious innate self. The only thing that can't be taken from us. The only thing we really own.”

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14. Marjorie Holmes - “Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.”

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15. Marjorie Holmes - “My God would never deliberately bring harm to anyone. But if it happens, if it simply happens due to wind and rain and weather and man's own mistakes, then God has promises to keep: Li£e continuing. An even richer, fuller, brighter ongoing life to compensate.”

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16. Marjorie Holmes - “Oh, God, give me grace for this day. Not for a lifetime, nor for next week, nor for tomorrow, just for this day. Direct my thoughts and bless them Direct my work and bless it. Direct the things I say and give them blessing, too. Direct and bless everything that I think and speak and do. So that for this one day, just this one day, I have the gift of grace that comes from your presence....”

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17. Oliver Wendell Holmes - “The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.”

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18. Oliver Wendell Holmes - “Old age is fifteen years older than I am.”

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19. Oliver Wendell Holmes - “Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.”

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20. Oliver Wendell Holmes - “Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.”

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21. Oliver Wendell Holmes - “Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.”

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22. Oliver Wendell Holmes - “Speak clearly if you speak at all; carve every word before you let if fall.”

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23. Oliver Wendell Holmes - “Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.”

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24. Oliver Wendell Holmes - “To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.”

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25. Oliver Wendell Holmes - “To reach the port of Heaven we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must sail, and not drift or lie at anchor.”

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