Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
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cheerful far hopeful
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
achievement attempt bird eye hand hit humility infinitely living love neighbor thinking thy vain
With all humility, I think, ''Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.'' Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing, you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
age-and-aging men playing
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
calamity disaster great
A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
uttered
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
education learning main
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
duty rule seem
The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
truth
A new untruth is better than an old truth.
act decides faith great man
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
based common evidence experience history less main parts rules
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.
inspirational wise travel
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
destiny men thinking
I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.
life growing-up race
As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.
swings noses fists
My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.