Best Oliver Wendell Holmes Thoughts
- The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion. Certainty
- How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made! Live
- And silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound Blows
- I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other… Complexity
- Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface. Always Trying
- 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… Engine
- Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. Dimensions
- One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore! Evermore
- There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation. Characteristic
- There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young! Love
- Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them. Alas
- A man's mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions. Dimensions
- The bigot is like the pupil of the eye, the more light you put upon it, the more it will contract. Bigot
- Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath… Bath
- The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray… Amidst
- Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay. Begin
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