What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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Science is the topography of ignorance.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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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 Sr.

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Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.


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To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.


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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.


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The great thing in this world, is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.


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Man has his will, but woman has her way.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.


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