Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes

206 quotes · Justice, Jurist, Author

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Justice, Jurist, Author

Melancholic

“Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.”

Mean School Knowledge

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Justice, Jurist, Author

Melancholic

“The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.”

Fall Autumn August

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Thoughtful

“There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.”

Inspirational Education

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Wise

“Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.”

Men Funny

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Philosophical

“The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.”

Men Order Destiny

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Thoughtful

“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.”

Class Criticism Mediocrity

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Funny

“Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.”

Names Fate

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Courageous

“Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.”

Men Political

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Angry

“Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.”

Taxes Regulation

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Angry

“Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.”

Society Always Trying

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Philosophical

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

Long Blood

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Philosophical

“Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.”

Cost Competition

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