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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. |
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The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving." |
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The human race is divided into two classes-- those who go ahead and do something and those who sit and inquire, "Why wasn't it done the other way?" |
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The man is father to the boy that was, and I am my own son. |
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The movements of exaltation which belong to genius are egotistic by their very nature. A calm, clear mind, not subject to the spasms and crises which are so often met with in creative or intensely perceptive natures, is the best basis for love or friendship. --Observe, I am talking about minds. I won't say, the more intellect, the less capacity for loving; for that would do wrong to the understanding and reason;-- but on the other hand, that the ... |
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The truths a man carries about with him are his tools; and do you think a carpenter is bound to use the same plane but once to smooth a knotty board with, or to hang up his hammer after it has driven its first nail? I shall never repeat a conversation, but an idea often." |
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. |
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There are men whom it weakens one to talk with an hour more than a day's fasting would do." |
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Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered that I was not God. |
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