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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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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor
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I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea.
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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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I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
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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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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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I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.
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If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up
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If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say: meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it, and had better be on speaking terms with it.
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If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end
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If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
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If truth were not often suggested by error, if old implements could not be adjusted to new uses, human progress would be slow
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In order to know what [the law] is, we must know what it has been, and what it tends to become.
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In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
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It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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It was a tall young oysterman lived by the riverside.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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