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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.: top 300 quotes
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Civilization (n.) is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
The Bigot's (n.) mind is like the pupil of the eye - the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.
Love (n.) is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
Love (n.) is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
Love (n.) is sparingly soluble in th<S words of men, therefore they speak much of it ; but one syllable of woman’s speech can dissolve more of it than a man's heart can bold.
Love (n.) prefers twilight to daylight.
Life (n.) is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings.
Life (n.) is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
Life (n.) is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Truth (n.) is what one can't help believing.
Truth (n.) is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid.
Truth (n.) is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch, nay, you may kick it all about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Man (n.) is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
Man (n.) is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.
A Man (n.) is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
Poetry (n.) is distinguished from prose in that when you write in prose, you say what you mean; but when you write in verse, you say what you must.
Beauty (n.) is the Index of a larger fact than wisdom.