216 ordspråk av Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.
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We must have a weak spot or two in our character before we can love it much
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We're not retreating, Hell! We're just attacking in different direction!
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What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds.
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What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
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When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?
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When in doubt, do it.
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When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe that the ultimate good is better reached by free trade in ideas.
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When the last reader reads no more.
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Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future
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With crimson juice the thirsty southern day, Sucks from the hills where buried armies lie, So that the dreamy passion it imparts Is drawn from heroes' bones and lovers' hearts
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With effervescing opinions, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them get exposed to the air
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