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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

«Man wants but little drink below, / But wants that little strong.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
«You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
«Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered that I was not God,»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
«The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
«We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
«Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
«Beware how you take away hope from another human being.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
«Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
«One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
«Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
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