25 Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes You Must Read

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1. “Death tugs at my ear and says, ‘Live. I am coming.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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2. “Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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3. “The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, ‘The medicines of the soul.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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4. “A man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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5. “It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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6. “The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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7. “Man has his will, but woman has her way.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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8. “A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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9. “Beware how you take away hope from another human being.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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10. “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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11. “When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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12. “Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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13. “Many people die with their music still in them. Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it time runs out.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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14. “What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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15. “The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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16. “Speak clearly if you speak at all, carve every word before you let it fall.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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17. “A mind that is stretched by new experiences can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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18. “For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn’t give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes (see more quotes about simplicity)

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19. “Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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20. “Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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21. “Science is the topography of ignorance.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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22. “One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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23. “I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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24. “The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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25. “Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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With over a decade of writing experience, Norbert Juma is a Lifestyle Writer and Editor at EverydayPower.com. Norbert love for all things internet has led him to earn a BSC in Computer Science. For the past 5 years with EverydayPower, Norbert has covered tech, family, and entertainment.
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