Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Thinking, Freedom Of Speech, May

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.118, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

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  Stupid, Silly, Men

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1858). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.42

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• Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

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  Friendship, Relationship, Courtesy

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.51, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

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  Beauty, Past, Beautiful Women

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.31, Reprint Services Corporation

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• A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

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  Inspiration, Men, Age

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1875). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.178

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• The best servant does his work unseen.

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  Unseen, Doe, Servant

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1872). “The Poet at the Breakfast-table: His Talks with His Fellow-boarders and the Reader”, p.171, Boston J.R. Osgood 1872.

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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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  Love, Dream, Kissing

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.269, Reprint Services Corporation

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• It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

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  Life, Faith, Insightful

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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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  Bullying, Two, Common Sense

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Over the Teacups”, p.148, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.

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  World, Trouble, Humans

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• The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

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  Education, Men, Political

  1857-8 The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch.6.

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• For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

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  Business, Giving, Simplicity

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• Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

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  Running, Memories, Water

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1875). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.325

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• Leverage is everything-don't begin to pry until you've got the long arm on your side.

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  Your Side, Long, Advice

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• I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

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  Hate, Civilization, Giving

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• Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.

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  Dog, Differences, Knows

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• The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

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  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.124, Reprint Services Corporation

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• A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

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  Love, Change, Dream

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1896). “Morse, John T.Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes”

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• When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-- that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment. As all life is an experiment. Every year if not every day we wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

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  Freedom, Believe, Fighting

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• Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Running, Communication, Inspiration

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• There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

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  Morning, Old Friends, No Friends

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 2”, p.146, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.

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  Age, Youth, Aging

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 2”, p.205, Reprint Services Corporation

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• You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.

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  Genius, May, Courses

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• The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.

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  Kings, Book, Reading

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• The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Morning, Cheer, Coffee

  1891 Over the Teacups, ch.1.

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