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The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. ↗

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared. ↗

— Homer

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The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. ↗

— Homer

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