All Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
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The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason.
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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
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A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
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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.
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This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
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If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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