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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


American
March 8, 1841
Judge
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.


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The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.


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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.


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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.


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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
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