Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. quotes - page 11

All of us love companionship and sympathy; some of us may love them too much. All of us are more or less imaginative in our theology. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
The creative action is not voluntary at all, but automatic; we can only put the mind into the proper attitude, and wait for the wind, that blows where it listeth, to breathe over it. Thus the true state of creative genius is allied to reverie, or dreaming. View quote
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You can hire logic, in the shape of a lawyer, to prove anything that you want to prove. View quote
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I try his head occasionally as housewives try eggs,- give it an intellectual shake and hold it up to the light, so to speak, to see if it has life in it, actual or potential, or only contains lifeless albumen. View quote
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What a miserable thing it is to be poor. View quote
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Each woman virtually summons every man to show cause why he doth not love her. View quote
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I have always considered my face a convenience rather than an ornament. View quote
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We forget that weakness is not in itself a sin. We forget that even cowardice may call for our most lenient judgment, if it spring from innate infirmity. View quote
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I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes. View quote
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How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made! View quote
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Why should we be more shy of repeating ourselves than the spring be tired of blossoms or the night of stars? (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
Storms, thunders, waves! Howl, crash, and bellow till ye get your fill; Ye sometimes rest; men never can be still But in their graves. View quote
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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "facts.”. View quote
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Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason. View quote
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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. View quote
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Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. View quote
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A new untruth is better than an old truth. View quote
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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. View quote
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The life of the law has not been logic it has been experience. View quote
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Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while Before they begin to decay. View quote
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There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. View quote
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For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul. View quote
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To know is not less than to feel. View quote
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. View quote
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