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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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 Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. |
| 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. |
| Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. |
| The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. |
| Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. |
| It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. |
| Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him |
| A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. |
| Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed. |
| Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. |
| It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. |
| The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul." |
| To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. |
 Skymningen rymmer mer kärlek än fullt dagsljus. | Love prefers twilight to daylight |
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