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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Inspiring
Motivation
Sprung Up
Teamwork
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The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Courtesy
Holmes
Relation
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The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Peace
Ideas
World
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The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Cutting
Hypocrisy
Patterns
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It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Easy
Law
Taste
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Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about - you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Men
Beer
Glasses
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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Science
Advice
Expression
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Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Lonely
Research
Writing
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Men
Advice
Book
Elders
Hundred
Unreal
Apt
Books
List
Young Men
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Force
Groups
Inconsistent
People
Remedy
Two
Want
People Who Want
Make
Who
People See Want
Between
People See Who
See
Worlds
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Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Majority
Tests
Views
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Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Apologizing
Apology
Sides
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Education
Investigation
Needs
Obscure
Obvious
Seems
Time Me More
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To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Imagination
Ideas
Reaching
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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Education
Acquisition
Facts
Intellectual
Part
Main
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If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Adversity
Capacity
Trouble
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Doe
Genius
World
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Men
Fewer
Former
Ideas
Latter
Furnish
Regiment
Valid
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Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Friendship
Community
Rose
Sweet
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It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Friendship
Beloved
Strong
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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Powerful
Prize
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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.
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Apology
Phrases
Thinking
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There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Love
Garden
Soul
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Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Giving
Moving
World
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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Life
Atheism
Enough
Had Enough
Worth Living
Living
Itself
Question
Whether
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Life
Opportunity
Despise
Half
Neglected
Pleasure
Consist
Making
Opportunities
Pleasures
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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Records
Tattoo
Tribes
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Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Ignorant
May
Never Forget
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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Men
Ideas
Mind
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Anytime you see a Hungarian, kick him. He'll know why. Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Hours
Philosopher
Two
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Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Charity
Pleading
Poverty
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From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Men
Fall
Moving
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For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Government
Play
Thinking
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There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Men
Ideas
Stupid
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The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Men
Fire
Liberty
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The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Law
Moral Development
Race
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But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Ambition
Perseverance
Stay Strong
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History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
History
Causes
Thread
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To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Journey
Knowledge
Branches
Lying
Next
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The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Men
Destiny
Order
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Be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Able
Commit
Long
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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Life
Deny
Ethos
Saint
Sides
Saints
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Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Arrogance
Democracy
Feelings
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Go on, fair Science; soon to thee Shall Nature yield her idle boast; Her vulgar lingers formed a tree, But thou hast trained it to a post.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Nature
Science
Yield
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Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Intelligence
Facts
Mean
Rip
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Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Men
Choices
Liberty
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I should like to see any kind of man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Men
Husband
Pretty Woman
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There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Hands
Past
Race
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To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Character
Crow
Luck
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The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Diversity
Justice
Real
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