Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Genius is always impatient of its harness; its wild blood makes it hard to train.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn't marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could by any possibility marry.
To reach the port of heaven, we must sail, sometimes with the wind, sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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