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Letter "O" » Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
«To think great thoughts, you must be heroes as well as idealists»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
heroes, Idealists, The Idealists
«Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Feelings,
Laughter,
Tears
| Keywords:
machinery, sensibility, wheels, wind power
«Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Life,
Youth
| Keywords:
good fortune, outset, passionate, profound, touched
«Men to a great extent believe what they want to - although I see in that no basis for a philosophy that tells us what we should want to want»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
although, basis, extent, to a great extent
«Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust»
«I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived»
«I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Simplicity
| Keywords:
complexity, fig, Other side, simplicity, The other side
«If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Constitution,
Principles
| Keywords:
attachment, free-thinking, free thought, imperatively
«Love prefers twilight to daylight»
«The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Effort
| Keywords:
inevitable, mode
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