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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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Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles

Life is a great bundle of little things

Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind, or miss it - but talking is like playing at a mark with the pipe of an engine; if it is within reach, and you have time enough, you can't help hitting it

The great end of living is to harmonize man with the order of things

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.

An artist that works in marble or colors has them all to himself and his tribe, but the man who molds his thoughts in verse has to employ the materials vulgarized by everybody's use, and glorify them by his handling

When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe that the ultimate good is better reached by free trade in ideas.

The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.

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

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.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite

We must have a weak spot or two in our character before we can love it much

A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp.

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