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Oliver Wendall Holmes
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
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Oliver Wendall Holmes
A person’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions
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Oliver Wendall Holmes
A world is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought, and may vary greatly in color and content according to the ci ...
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Oliver Wendall Holmes
Beware how you take away hope from another human being
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Oliver Wendall Holmes
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
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Oliver Wendall Holmes
We have shared the incommunicable experience of war. I our youths, our hearts were touched by fire.
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Oliver Wendall Holmes
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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Oliver Wendall Holmes
This is the court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
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Oliver Wendall Holmes
To-day, old friend, remember still
That I am Joe and you are Bill.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
The jury has the power to bring a verdict in the teeth of
both the law and facts
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
The foolishest book is a kind of leaky boat on a sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Old books, as you well know, are books of the world's youth, and new books are fruits of its age.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
All men are bores, except when we want them.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Boston State-house is the hub of the solar system. You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened ...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town and city.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Full of crooked little streets; but I tell you Boston has opened, and kept open, more turnpikes that lead straight to free thought and free speech and ...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
That's all I claim for Boston,-that it is the thinking center of the continent, and therefore of the planet.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
I never thought he would come to good, when I beard him attempting to sneer at an unoffending city so respectable as Boston.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
The heart of the world beats under the three hills of Beston.
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