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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Age: 93 †
Born: 1841
Born: March 8
Died: 1935
Died: March 6
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
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The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.
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Carve every word before you let it fall.
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Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.
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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
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Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified although some decisions with which I have disagreed seem to me to have forgotten the fact.
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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
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Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.
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Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.
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To know is not less than to feel.
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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
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Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
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Go on, fair Science soon to thee Shall Nature yield her idle boast Her vulgar lingers formed a tree, But thou hast trained it to a post.
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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.
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For him in vain the envious seasons roll Who bears eternal summer in his soul.
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The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty.
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