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Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes föddes den 29 august 1809 och dog den 7 oktober 1894 - amerikansk läkare och författare.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Sannhet

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles

Life is a great bundle of little things

Liv

Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind, or miss it - but talking is like playing at a mark with the pipe of an engine; if it is within reach, and you have time enough, you can't help hitting it

Skrive

The great end of living is to harmonize man with the order of things

Boende

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.

An artist that works in marble or colors has them all to himself and his tribe, but the man who molds his thoughts in verse has to employ the materials vulgarized by everybody's use, and glorify them by his handling

Kunst

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.

The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

Folk

It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite

Sivilisasjon

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