Tag: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have – Cincinnati sounds worse.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.