39 ordspråk av Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
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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.
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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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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.
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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.
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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
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The chief end of a man is to frame general ideas - and... no general idea is worth a damn.
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The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
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The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
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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.'
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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