Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it but we must sail and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

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

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To brag little, to lose well, To crow gently if in luck, To pay up, to own up, To shut up if beaten, Are the virtues of a sportingman.

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Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

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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.

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The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.

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The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

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Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

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The hat is the ultimum moriens of respectability.

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I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer

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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

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This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think.

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It is the folly of the world, constantly, which confounds its wisdom.

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

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I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.

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Like sentinel and nun, they keep Their vigil on the green.

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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - And the fools know it.

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Where go the poet's lines Answer, ye evening tapers Ye auburn locks, ye golden curls, Speak from your folded papers

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If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

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