Young Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

8 Young quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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Holmes’ legal mind often reflects on the formative power of early experiences. This concise set captures his perspective on youthful reasoning and moral growth.

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You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or…

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What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful…

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The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best…

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

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Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the…

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

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Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

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In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If…

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While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.

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Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

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If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.

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Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

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It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The…

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Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.

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As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify…

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On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar,…

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Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

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A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

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Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.

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Systems die; instincts remain.

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In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds…

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The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may…

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

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