American - Writer | August 29, 1809 - October 7, 1894
Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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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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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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