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70 quotes (Page 2 of 3 pages)How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!
Reputation
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Insanity
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
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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.
Life and Living
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Wisdom
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
Loneliness
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
Faith
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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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
Love
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
Retirement
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Man has will, but woman has her way.
Will and Will Power
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
Ideas
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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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
Opinions
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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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
Trust
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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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Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.
Advertising
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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Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
Society
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
Conceit
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