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Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Age: 93 †
Born: 1841
Born: March 8
Died: 1935
Died: March 6
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Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.
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Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.
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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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A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.
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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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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted from the neck and shoulders.
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The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.
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But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.
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The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
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Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.
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Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
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