All Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes in
Art
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He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
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This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes in
Science
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes in
Friendship
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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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