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252 ordspråk av Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes föddes den 29 august 1809 och dog den 7 oktober 1894 - amerikansk läkare och författare.
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 We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing. |
| Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable. |
| Beware how you take away hope from another human being. |
| Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. |
| One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. |
| Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. |
| Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. |
| The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract. |
| Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features. |
| What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds. |
| God's plan made a hopeful beginning. But man spoiled his chances by sinning. We trust that the story will end in God's glory. But, at present, the other side's winning. |
| Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age. |
| In order to know what [the law] is, we must know what it has been, and what it tends to become. |
| Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions. |
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