All Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
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We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
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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.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
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Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
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Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.
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