Oliver Wendell Holmes

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Apology is only egotism wrong side out. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Have the courage to act instead of react. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A new untruth is better than an old truth. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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