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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Age: 93 †
Born: 1841
Born: March 8
Died: 1935
Died: March 6
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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.
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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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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
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The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.
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Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.
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Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.
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As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.
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The life of the law has not been logic it has been experience.
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To know is not less than to feel.
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The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.
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There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.
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Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
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Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
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To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.
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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
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