Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
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Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
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You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.
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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
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Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.
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You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
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Eloquence may set fire to reason.
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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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Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.
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People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.
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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
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I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.