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Quotations by author » Oliver Wendell Holmes
American Physician, Poet, Writer, Humorist and Professor at Harvard, 1809-1894
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With effervescing opinions, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them get exposed to the air
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
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Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind, or miss it - but talking is like playing at a mark with the pipe of an engine; if it is within reach, and you have time enough, you can't help hitting it
Writing
Yes, child of suffering, thou mayst well be sure, He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor! Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.
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Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered that I was not God,
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Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
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[I]t is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have vanished long since, and the rule simply persists through blind imitation of the past.
Justice
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