Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
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The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as they would be done by
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.
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It was a tall young oysterman lived by the riverside.
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Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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With all humility, I think, ''Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.'' Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing, you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.