All Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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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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Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason.
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
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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.
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Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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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.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
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