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Oliver wendell Holmes

Oliver wendell Holmes

Country United States
Born Tuesday, 30 November -0001
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There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. Uncategorized
I find the great in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,-but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. Uncategorized
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned. Uncategorized
Don't 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. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. Uncategorized
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. Uncategorized
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. Uncategorized
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? Uncategorized
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Uncategorized
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. Uncategorized
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. Uncategorized
The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. Uncategorized
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. Uncategorized
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. Uncategorized
Science is good furniture for one's upper chamber, if there is common sense below. Uncategorized
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. Uncategorized
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Uncategorized
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. Uncategorized
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. Uncategorized
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. Uncategorized
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. Uncategorized

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