The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Wisdom
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Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Nothing is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable.
Wisdom
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
Wisdom
Certitude is not the test of certainty.
Wisdom
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Wisdom
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Wisdom
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
Wisdom
Where we love is home, Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Love
The sound of a kiss is not so loudas that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Wisdom
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Truth
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Wisdom
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.
Wisdom
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
Life
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Wisdom
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.
Wisdom
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Life