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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Age: 93 †
Born: 1841
Born: March 8
Died: 1935
Died: March 6
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For him in vain the envious seasons roll Who bears eternal summer in his soul.
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There is no friend like the old friend, who has shared our morning days, No greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise: Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
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For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.
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If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.
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History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
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It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.
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Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.
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A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.
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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
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Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.
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Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
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The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
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Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.
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We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.
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Science is the topography of ignorance. From a few elevated points we triangulate vast spaces, inclosing infinite unknown details. We cast the lead, and draw up a little sand from abysses we may never reach with our dredges.
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Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.
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The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.
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Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.
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To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas
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