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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Quotes
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- Hate
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
- Like
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
- Men
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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
- Music
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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 runs out.
- Great Deal
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
- Character
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A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Have the courage to act instead of react.
- Life
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
- Game
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
- Mind
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
- Key
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
- Nov 07, 2020
Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.
- Damn
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
- Attempting
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
- Amen
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
- Logic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020