The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of an eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.


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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.


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Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.


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I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Tags: libraries murphy-s-law series



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It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.


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When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-- that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment. As all life is an experiment. Every year if not every day we wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Tags: law freedom-of-speech



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Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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