Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
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Man has his will, but woman has her way.
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I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.
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Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
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Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
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Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
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I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.
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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it
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And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
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Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death / of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.
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People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?
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Beware how you take away hope from any human being.