Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
consistent
Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.
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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.
cheerful far hopeful
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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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.
life faith insightful
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
trying
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
certainty
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
fire
Every idea is an incitement...Eloquence may set fire to reason.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
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The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as they would be done by