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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

American Judge

Born: Mar 8, 1841

Died: Mar 6, 1935

Life Man Men Time Worth Young

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Beware how you take away hope from another human being. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Hope You Human Being Take Beware Another How Human Being Away

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. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Freedom Constitution Hate Thought Free Other Those More Attachment Principle Calls Than Any Us Who Agree

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. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Time Word Thought Skin Living Circumstances Unchanged Vary Color Crystal Content According Greatly May Which Used Transparent

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. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Death Law Country Believe Think Loathe Unless I Think Immediate Pressing Fraught Threaten Lawful Purposes Attempts Check Opinions Against Eternally Required Should Interference Vigilant Expression Save

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Great Every Pursued Calling Greatly

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Life Picture Painting Sum Doing

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Test Were Been Certainty Certitude Many Things

If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Faith Words Unknown Would Would-Be Pursue Were End Dying Last

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Man First Own Mark Civilized Principles Doubted

A new untruth is better than an old truth. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Truth Truth Is Better Old New Than

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Other Philosophers Tell Hours Know Any Each Two

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

People Changes Detail Some Talk Make Then Fundamentals

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Me You Man Old Before Young Chuckle Say Longer Make May Sixty After Eighty Turned Twenty-Four

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