All Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes
Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.
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Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
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Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
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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.
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Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
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The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
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