Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason. Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air. Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us. Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool. Have the courage to act instead of react. He has half the deed done who has made a beginning. I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap. I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived. I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team! If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. 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. Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God. It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.
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