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The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be ''consistent.''
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
People can be divided into two classes those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way'
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in arrears By lending them minutes and charging them years
By Oliver Wendell Holmes