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All Quotes by author - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
" A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. "
Principles
Than
Money
" A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. "
Never
Mind
Old
" A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. "
Worth
Than
Idea
" A new untruth is better than an old truth. "
Old
Truth Is
Better
" Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. "
Know
Any
Hours
" A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. "
Color
Living
Used
" Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force. "
People
Two
Want
" Beware how you take away hope from another human being. "
Human
You
Away
" Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so. "
Test
Many
Certainty
" Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. "
Important
End
The Most Important
" Every calling is great when greatly pursued. "
Calling
Pursued
Every
" Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason. "
May
Reason
Set
" Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. "
New
Never
Mind
" I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected. "
Opportunities
Half
Life
" If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. "
Dying
Last
Faith
" If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate. "
Us
Thought
Constitution
" I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master. "
Passion
Respect
Me
" I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country. "
Law
Opinions
Think
" It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God. "
God
Lonely
Play
" It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure. "
More
Need
Education
" Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. "
Legal
Deal
Time
" Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it. "
You
Life
Living
" Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. "
Picture
Sum
Life
" Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government. "
Government
Deal
Turn
" Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think. "
Think
True
Neighbors
" On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it. "
Side
Worth
I Am
" People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail. "
Some
Talk
Changes
" The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. "
Best
Elders
Young
" The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God. "
Man
Act
Faith
" The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God. "
God
Man
He
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