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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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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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Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
Conceit
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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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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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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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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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
Passion
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Law and Lawyers
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun