Tag: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn’t got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Simple people… are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.