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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
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What gems of painting or statuary are in the world of art, or what flowers are in the world of nature, are gems of thought to the cultivated and thinking (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
It is the peculiarity of the bore that he is the last person to find himself out (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
What the mulberry leaf is to the silkworm, the author’s book, treatise, essay, poem, is to the critical larvae that feed upon it. It furnishes them with food and clothing (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
A wise man recognizes the convenience of a general statement, but he bows to the authority of a particular fact (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
One cannot help using his early friends as the seaman uses the log, to mark his progress (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
A person of genius should marry a person of character. Genius does not herd with genius (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Talent is often to be envied, and genius very commonly to be pitied. It stands twice the chance of the other of dying in a hospital, in jail, in debt, in bad repute (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or, to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
We must not roughly smash other people’s idols because we know, or think we know, that they are of cheap human manufacture (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
There never was an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul; it takes one that knows it well, parent, child, brother, sister, intimate (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
The joy of life is to put out one’s power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. and the real misery is not to do this (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Judges commonly are elderly men, and are more likely to hate at sight any analysis to which they are not accustomed, and which disturbs repose of mind, than to fall in love with novelties (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to, in virtue of our endowments (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Our system of morality is a body of imperfect social generalizations expressed in terms of emotion (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
With effervescing opinions, as with the not yet forgotten champagne, the quickest way to let them go flat is to let them get exposed to the air (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least, not to express them (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one’s way of taking a fact (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Poverty comes pleading, not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
The preacher’s garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
What if one does say the same things, of course in a little different form each time, over and over? If he has anything to say worth saying, that is just what he ought to do (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
We don’t know each other’s secrets quite so well as we flatter ourselves we do. We don’t always know our own secrets as well as we might (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
A sick man that gets talking about himself, a woman that gets talking about her baby, and an author that begins reading out of his own book, never know when to stop (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Society is always trying in some way or other to grind us down to a single flat surface (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)