216 ordspråk av Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.
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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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The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as they would be done by
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The first of all other virtues - for other people
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The great end of living is to harmonize man with the order of things
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The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
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The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
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The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them.
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The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.
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The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
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The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly with a cloth
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The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn
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The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.
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