Oliver Wendell Holmes

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Don't be "consistent" but be simple true. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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