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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#game #genial #plays #pleasing #praise

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#education #facts #how #intellectual #learning

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#always #damn #damned #generally #his

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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There are two sorts of good wills. The one says, "I would do well, but it gives me trouble, and I will not do it." The other, "I wish to do well, but I have not as much power as I have will; it is this which holds me back." The first fills Hell, the second Paradise. ↗

— Francis de Sales

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The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. ↗

— 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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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#enough #had #had enough #itself #life

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#contract #eye #light #like #mind