Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Have the courage to act instead of react.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
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!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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