Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - Love Quotes

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For there we loved, and where we love is home,
Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts,
Though o'er us shine the jasper-lighted dome:—
The chain may lengthen, but it never parts!

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Each woman virtually summons every man to show cause why he doth not love her.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
On Thee we fling our burdening woe,
O love Divine, forever dear:
Content to suffer, while we know,
Living and dying, Thou art near!

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
When fades at length our lingering day,
Who cares what pompous tombstones say?
Read on the hearts that love us still,
Hic jacet Joe. Hic jacet Bill.
Hic jacet means here lies.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I have no doubt that we have each one of us, somewhere, our exact facsimile, so like us in all things except the accidents of condition, that we should love each other like a pair of twins, if our natures could once fairly meet.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Faith loves to lean on time's destroying arm,
And age, like distance, lends a double charm.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Love is the master key that unlocks the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and most easily of all, the gate of fear.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
One unquestioned text we read,
All doubt beyond, all fear above;
Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed
Can burn or blot it—God is love.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall;
A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
One could never remember himself in eternity by the mere fact of having loved or hated any more than by that of having thirsted; love and hate have no more individuality in them than single waves in the ocean;—but the accidents or trivial marks which distinguished those whom we loved or hated make their memory our own forever, and with it that of our own personality also.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
All of us love companionship and sympathy; some of us may love them too much. All of us are more or less imaginative in our theology.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Though fortune scowl, though prudence interfere,
One thing is certain: Love will triumph here!
Lords of creation, whom your ladies rule,—
The world's great masters, when you 're out of school,—
Learn the brief moral of our evening's play
Man has his will,—but woman has her way!

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. How terrible is the one fact of beauty!

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.