Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
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The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
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As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
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The chief end of a man is to frame general ideas - and... no general idea is worth a damn.
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An artist that works in marble or colors has them all to himself and his tribe, but the man who molds his thoughts in verse has to employ the materials vulgarized by everybody's use, and glorify them by his handling
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Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his
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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.