Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes - Page 9

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• You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Children, Fun, Angel

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• People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Change, People, Details

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• The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Book, Reading, Ideas

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• These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green; This is the scholar whose immortal penSpells the first lesson hunger taught to men; These are the lines that heaven-commanded Toil Shows on his deed, - the charter of the soil!

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  Life, Kings, Men

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• Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Charity, Poverty, Pleading

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• There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Drunk, Devil

  "Natural Law". Harvard Law Review, 1918.

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