Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. quotes - page 9

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
Lord of all being, thronèd afar, Thy glory flames from sun and star; Center and soul of every sphere, Yet to each loving heart how near! View quote
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It is by little things that we know ourselves; a soul would very probably mistake itself for another, when once disembodied, were it not for individual experiences which differ from those of others only in details seemingly trifling. View quote
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He must be a poor creature that does not often repeat himself. View quote
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Talk about it as much as you like,-one's breeding shows itself nowhere more than in his religion. View quote
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Don't ever think the poetry is dead in an old man because his forehead is wrinkled, or that his manhood has left him when his hand trembles! If they ever were there, they are there still! View quote
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I talk half the time to find out my own thoughts, as a school-boy turns his pockets inside out to see what is in them. One brings to light all sorts of personal property he had forgotten in his inventory. View quote
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Now habit is a labor-saving invention which enables a man to get along with less fuel,-that is all; for fuel is force. View quote
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Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. How terrible is the one fact of beauty! View quote
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I say that conceit is just as natural a thing to human minds as a centre is to a circle. But little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes' conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve. An arc in the movement of a large intellect does not sensibly differ from a straight line. Even if it have the third vowel ['I', the first-person pronoun] as its centre, it does not soon betray it. The highest thought, that is, is the most seemingly impersonal; it does not obviously imply any individual centre. View quote
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
Treat bad men exactly as if they were insane. View quote
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. It has come to you over a new route, by a new and express train of associations. View quote
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It will take you a hundred or two more years to get decently humanized, after so many centuries of de-humanizing celibacy. View quote
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There isn't a text in the Bible better worth keeping always in mind than that one, 'Judge not, that ye be not judged. View quote
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You inherit your notions from a set of priests that had no wives and no children, or none to speak of, and so let their humanity die out of them. View quote
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You can never be too cautious in your prognosis, in the view of the great uncertainty of the course of any disease not long watched, and the many unexpected turns it may take. View quote
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I should be especially unwilling to tell a child that it could not recover; if the theologians think it necessary, let them take the responsibility. God leads it by the hand to the edge of the precipice in happy unconsciousness, and I would not open its eyes to what he wisely conceals. View quote
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Though fortune scowl, though prudence interfere, One thing is certain: Love will triumph here! View quote
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The god looked out upon the troubled deep Waked into tumult from its placid sleep. View quote
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If a man has a genuine, sincere, hearty wish to get rid of his liberty, if he is really bent upon becoming a slave, nothing can stop him. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
Call him not old whose visionary brain Holds o'er the post its undivided reign. View quote
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Be polite and generous, but don't undervalue yourself. View quote
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Grant us Thy truth to make us free, And kindling hearts that burn for Thee, Till all Thy living altars claim One holy light, one heavenly flame. View quote
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How many have withered and wasted under as slow a torment in the walls of that larger Inquisition which we call Civilization! View quote
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