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Letter "O" » Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
«Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays, the pleasing game of interchanging praise.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Praise
| Keywords:
genial, interchange, interchanging
«Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the chips that were left.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
chips, manufactured, patented
«How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!»
«The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.»
«The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.»
«Literature is full of coincidences, which some love to believe are plagiarisms. There are thoughts always abroad in the air which it takes more wit to avoid than to hit upon.»
«All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called ''facts.'' They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Who does not know fellows that always have an ill-conditioned fact or two that they lead after them into decent company like so many bull-dogs, ready to let them slip at every ingenious suggestion, or convenient generalization, or pleasant fancy? I allow no ''facts'' at this table.»
«Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.»
«What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.»
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