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Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes thought
The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes self
Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes wisdom
Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes love
And when you stick on conversations burrs, dont strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes path
The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes man
To have doubted ones own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes man
A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes history
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes history
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes mind
Mans mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes mind
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes men
A moments insight is sometimes worth a lifes experience.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes life
Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes man
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes art
No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul it takes one that knows it well -- parent, child, brother, sister, intimate.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes soul
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes love
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes mind
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes hope
When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman
— Oliver Wendell Holmes inspiration
Death tugs at my ear and says: Live, I am coming.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes death
There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes men
Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes great
The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes man
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a mans upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes science
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes mind
Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes death
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes opinion
And Silence, like a poultice, comesTo heal the blows of sound.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes silence
Our brains are seventy-year clocks.The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes life
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes think
There is no friend like anold friendWho has shared your morning daysNo greeting like hiswelcomeNo homage like hispraiseFame is the scentlessflowerWith gaudy crown of gold;But friendship is the breathing roseWith seeds in every fold.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes friendship
Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes men
The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes beauty
The bigot is like the pupil of the eye, the more light you put upon it, the more it will contract.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes light
A mans mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes mind
Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes music
There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!
— Oliver Wendell Holmes time
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes love
There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes art
One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!
— Oliver Wendell Holmes art
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes life
Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your readers mind, or miss it - but talking is like playing at a mark with the pipe of an engine; if it is within reach, and you have time enough, you cant help hitting it
— Oliver Wendell Holmes writing
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes world
Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all
— Oliver Wendell Holmes power
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes society
Dont flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes friendship
For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes soul
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.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes life
And silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound
— Oliver Wendell Holmes silence
How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!
— Oliver Wendell Holmes people
The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes mind
To have doubted ones own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes man
Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes people
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays, the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes friendship
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes books
[I]t is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have vanished long since, and the rule simply persists through blind imitation of the past.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes time
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes soul
A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes man
Its faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes life
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him
— Oliver Wendell Holmes past
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes men
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
When in doubt, do it.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes doubt
My fee, if I select the subject, is $150; if your committee selects the subject, the charge is $250, but in either case the speech is the same
— Oliver Wendell Holmes you
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes wisdom
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes freedom
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes comfort
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes time
Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes truth
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes play

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