Tag: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else – very rarely to those who say to themselves, ‘Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!’.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions – adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way – and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.