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The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Lying
Spring
Stars
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There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Men
Devil
Drunk
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Common
Common Sense
Evidence
Logic
Rules
Based
Main
Parts
Substantive
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General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Decision
Intuition
Judgment
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It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted from the neck and shoulders.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Necks
Vices
Virtue
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Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Humanity
Individuality
Lying
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Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Knowledge
Ocean
Moving
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Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
War
Appreciate
Southern
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What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Wisdom
Hopeful
Years
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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Equality
Respect
Envy
No Respect
Passion
Seems
Accept
Disparage
Master
Merely
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We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Our Words
Real
Thinking
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You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Birthday
Smile
Men
Eighty
Four
Sixty
Twenties
Chuckle
Man May Me
Man Me Young
Longer
Turned
Twenty-Four
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Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Knowledge
Mean
School
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There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Family
Quality
Generations
Way
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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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Great
Time
Fire
Fortune
Given
Good Fortune
Heart
Passionate
Profound
Touched
Youth
Life Good Great
Through
Hearts
Learn
Life Is A
Outset
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Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Feet
Morality
Pigs
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As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Life
Growing Up
Teaching
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I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Men
Chiefs
Ends
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In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Inspirational
Sarcastic
Teenager
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Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Doe
Gains
Satisfaction
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In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds and foundations of all rational decisions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Decision
Foundation
People
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Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Death
Doors
People
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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Book
Heart
Reading
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It takes me several days, after I get back to Boston, to realize that the reference "the president" refers to the president of Harvard and not to a minor official in Washington.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Boston
President
Realizing
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The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Acceptance
Competition
Ideas
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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Aesthetic
Civilized
Ideas
Mean
Moral
Preserves
Shocked
Although
Beyond
Master
Potentially
Preferences
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The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Believe
Denial
World
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But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Eye
Heart
Long
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A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Men
Campaigns
Greatness
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Life
Circumstances
Color
May
Skins
Transparent
Used
Vary
Living
According
Skin
Content
Thought
Crystal
Greatly
Word
Unchanged
Which
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I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Men
Destiny
Thinking
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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Done
Father
Thinking
Fathers
Larger
Neighbors
Suspect
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But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in the conclusion. Most rights are qualified.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Law
Pitfalls
Rights
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Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Men
Kissing
Want Something
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Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Opportunity
Justice
Law
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Any new formula which suddenly emerges in our consciousness has its roots in long trains of thought; it is virtually old when it first makes its appearance among the recognized growths of our intellect.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Ideas
Roots
Train Of Thought
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Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Love
Heart
Real
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The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
August
Autumn
Fall
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It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son's age.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Believe
Father
Son
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You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Angel
Children
Fun
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The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Friendship
Work
Voice
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There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. It is a pleasure to mediocrity to have its superiors brought within range.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Class
Criticism
Mediocrity
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The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Book
Ideas
Reading
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On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Life
Garden
Roots
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The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general theory, and to do it with style. I should like to be admitted to be the greatest jurist in the world.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Ideas
Law
Style
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There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out of remembrance, but the dividends on the stocks he bequeaths to his children live and keep his memory green.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Money
Children
Memories
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Science is the topography of ignorance. From a few elevated points we triangulate vast spaces, inclosing infinite unknown details. We cast the lead, and draw up a little sand from abysses we may never reach with our dredges.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Science
Space
Ignorance
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To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet, the dust, which assail in endless succession that shadow of a man which we call his reputation.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Failure
Men
Sleep
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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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Freedom
Agree
Attachment
Constitution
Hate
More
Free
Any
Those
Calls
Other
Principle
Than
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I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no drums; but where they are men learn that bustle and push are not the equals of quiet genius and serene mastery.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Teacher
Army
Powerful
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