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Blood is a destiny. One's geni...

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

The difference between gossip ...

The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

To be forgotten is to sleep in...

To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet, the dust, which assail in endless succession that shadow of a man which we call his reputation.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

It is perfectly easy to be ori...

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Under bad manners, as under gr...

Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Life is a fatal complaint, and...

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

We are all sentenced to capita...

We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare dwelling-place, we have adjusted ourselves to it, and made it tolerably comfortable for the little while we are to be confined in it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

To be master of any branch of ...

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

The preacher's garment is cut ...

The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

There is nothing like the dead...

There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

I know of no teachers so power...

I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no drums; but where they are men learn that bustle and push are not the equals of quiet genius and serene mastery.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

A person of genius should marr...

A person of genius should marry a person of character.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Men are idolaters, and want so...

Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

There is one gratification an ...

There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. It is a pleasure to mediocrity to have its superiors brought within range.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

A great man represents a great...

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Poverty comes pleading not for...

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Men, like peaches and pears, g...

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Old age is like an opium dream...

Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Systems die; instincts remain....

Systems die; instincts remain.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

Most people have died before t...

Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 352 quotes

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