Oliver Wendell Holmes

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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