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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Quote #1

Youth fades love droops, the leaves of friendship fall A mother's secret hope outlives them all. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Quote #2

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Quote #3

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Quote #4

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Quote #5

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Quote #6

It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Quote #7

Beware how you take away hope from another human being. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Quote #8

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Quote #9

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Quote #10

If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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