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70 quotes (Page 3 of 3 pages)Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Speech
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Stupidity
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Praise
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The Amen of nature is always a flower.
Flowers
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
Democracy
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
Vision
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
Faith
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.
Achievement
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The power to tax is not the power to destroy while this Court sits.
Uncategorised
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Kisses and Kissing
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Studying
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.
Law and Lawyers
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Age and Aging
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Doubt
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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To live is to function. That is all there is in living.
Life and Living
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
Truth
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.
Doctors
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Love
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
Rules
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
Secrets
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun