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Category: Oliver Wendell Holmes

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes

Have the courage to act instead of react.

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

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