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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


American
August 29, 1809
Writer
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.


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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.


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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.


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


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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.


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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.


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


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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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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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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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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
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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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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
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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. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
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