"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for……" — 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."
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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166 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes has 166 quotes on this site.
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Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it…
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I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
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We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see…
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The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to…
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I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the…
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Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
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What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings…
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The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of…
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Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart…
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The best servant does his work unseen.
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See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.
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There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.
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Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber.
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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by…
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I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme…
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It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.
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I was just letting the shots fly. You know, I don't leave any bullets in the chamber.
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Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
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Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of…
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