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7190 quotesA great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
Disasters
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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And Silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound.
Silence
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.
Beauty
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
Experts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
History and Historians
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Controversy
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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It cannot be helped, it is as it should be, that the law is behind the times.
Uncategorised
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.
Knowledge
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Language
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
Ideas
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.
Commonplace
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
Books - Reading
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
Children
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
Truth
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
Sin
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 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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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Doubt
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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A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.
Biography
Richard Holmes
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The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
Theory
Sherlock Holmes
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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Opinions
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
Service
Lou Holtz
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The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
Complaints and Complaining
Lou Holtz
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun