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Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes

American Physician, Poet, Writer, Humorist and Professor at Harvard, 1809-1894

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“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future”
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“The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.”
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“A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!”
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“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”
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“To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.”
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“To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.”
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“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
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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."”
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“Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.”
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“The Amen of nature is always a flower.”
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