Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men – from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“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
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“The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men – from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Controversy equalizes fools and wise men – and the fools know it.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Beware how you take away hope from another human being.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“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?” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“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.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“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 agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Have the courage to act instead of react.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Old age is fifteen years older than I am. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
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