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Category: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A child’s education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

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