All Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
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.
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
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Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
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One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
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Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
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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.
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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
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