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Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!


Oliver Wendell Holmes

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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES There's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end o...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES I find the great in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration,...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day lik...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul w...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Science is good furniture for one's upper chamber, if there is common sense below.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are movi...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Age, like distance lends a double charm.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Man has will, but woman has her way.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought, and may vary...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us t...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low qualit...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
OLIVER WENDELL-HOLMES The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES To think great thoughts, you must be heroes as well as idealists
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light
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