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Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving."
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor. "
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"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed."
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"There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight."
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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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"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."
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"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
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"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."
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"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."
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"Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men."
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"When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?"
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"Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm."
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"Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued."
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"The life of the law has not been logic but experience."
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"Death tugs at my ear and says: "Live, I am coming.""
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"Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite."
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"To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old."
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"To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man."
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"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children."
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"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
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"It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do th"
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"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."
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"I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions -- adding that no general proposition is worth a"
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"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."
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