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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes: Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
         

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.


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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.



Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.



Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.



A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.



It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.



Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.



Man has his will, but woman has her way.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.



Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.



Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.



Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.





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I have always believed and promoted the fact that education and access to the knowledge society involves lifelong learning.

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In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil.

In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil.



Travelers are the greatest ambassadors of tolerance.

Travelers are the greatest ambassadors of tolerance.



Putting all of my time In learning to care And a bucket of rhymes I threw up somewhere Want a locket of who Made me lose my perfunctory view Of all that is around And of all that I do.

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You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.



(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.

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I liked the results of the profits in the markets.

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