Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but sail we must and not drift nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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…
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and…
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have: Cincinnati sounds worse.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Eloquence may set fire to reason.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Don't be ''consistent'' but be simply true.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Death tugs at my ear and says: ''Live, I am coming.''
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
When in doubt, do it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and…
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time…
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.