Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
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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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The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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Life is a great bundle of little things
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The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them.
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The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
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A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.
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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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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.
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.