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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#better #grow #ideas #into #many

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#dozen #finds #fish #full #memory

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#put #trust #your

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#only #rough #rough work #truth #way

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#game #genial #plays #pleasing #praise

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

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

#intentions #religion #will #religion

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

#carry #comes #key #men #more

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#end #institutions #just #like #may

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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