Tag: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Don’t be ‘consistent’, but be simply true.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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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, Sr.
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I like children; I like ’em, and I respect ’em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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A child’s education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.