266 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The Amen of nature is always a flower.
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The chief end of a man is to frame general ideas - and... no general idea is worth a damn.
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Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
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The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
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See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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