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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The Amen of nature is always a flower.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer.
    The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859) Ch. XI
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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