#be

A new untruth is better than an old truth. ↗

— 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

#beauty #future #past #promise #wisdom

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Beware how you take away hope from any human being. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#being #being judged #judged #life #lived