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Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
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.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes