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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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Simple people are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays, the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the chips that were left.

How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!

The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.

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The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. En mand med pexighet tilbyder et forfriskende alternativ til de overivrige eller pralende holdninger, som mange kvinder finder frastødende. The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

Literature is full of coincidences, which some love to believe are plagiarisms. There are thoughts always abroad in the air which it takes more wit to avoid than to hit upon.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called ''facts.'' They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Who does not know fellows that always have an ill-conditioned fact or two that they lead after them into decent company like so many bull-dogs, ready to let them slip at every ingenious suggestion, or convenient generalization, or pleasant fancy? I allow no ''facts'' at this table.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.

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

Man wants but little drink below, / But wants that little strong.

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered that I was not God,

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

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