Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes - Page 8

• Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Satisfaction, Gains, Doe

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• Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Moving, Ocean, Knowledge

  "The Poet at the Breakfast Table". Book by Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1872.

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• La ciencia es la topografía de la ignorancia. Desde unos pocos puntos elevados triangulamos vastos espacios, incluyendo infinitos detalles desconocidos. Arrojamos el plomo y sacamos un poco de arena de abismos que jamás alcanzaremos con nuestras dragas.

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  Ignorance, Science, Space

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• Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Human Nature, Imitation, Humans

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• The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified; although some decisions with which I have disagreed seem to me to have forgotten the fact.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Law, Sky, Voice

  "Southern Pacific Company v. Jensen 244 U.S. 205, 222". Dissenting opinion, May 21, 1917.

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• Anytime you see a Hungarian, kick him. He'll know why. Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Two, Philosopher, Hours

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• The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Axes, Cities, Towns

  "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table". Book by Oliver Wendell Holmes, ch. VI, 1858.

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• Qué nueva cara pone el coraje en todo. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Tener setenta años a veces es mucho más alegre y esperanzador que tener cuarenta.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Wisdom, Years, Hopeful

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• Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.

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  Amor, Real, Corazón

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• Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

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  Friendship, Sweet, Rose

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• Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

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  Regulation, Discouragement, Taxes

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• The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.

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  Believe, Denial, World

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• Go on, fair Science; soon to thee
  Shall Nature yield her idle boast;
  Her vulgar lingers formed a tree,
  But thou hast trained it to a post.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Nature, Science, Yield

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• Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Squares, Political

  "Rock Island C.R.R. v. United States, 254 U.S. 141, 143". Judicial opinion, November 22, 1920.

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• But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Corazón, Ojo, Largo

  Letter to Harold Laski, 31 May 1923

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• It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted from the neck and shoulders.

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  Vices, Necks, Virtue

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• The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

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  Ideas, Mediocrity, Publicity

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• There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Past, Race, Hands

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• No hay amigo como el viejo amigo, que ha compartido nuestras mañanas,
  No hay saludo como su bienvenida, ni homenaje como su alabanza:
  La fama es el girasol sin aroma, con llamativa corona de oro;
  Pero la amistad es la rosa que respira, con dulces en cada pliegue.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Sweet, Morning, Real

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• There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. It is a pleasure to mediocrity to have its superiors brought within range.

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  Class, Criticism, Mediocrity

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• I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no drums; but where they are men learn that bustle and push are not the equals of quiet genius and serene mastery.

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  Teacher, Powerful, Army

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• On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.

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  Life, Garden, Roots

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• Señor, haz cesar la trompeta de la guerra; Envuelve en paz toda la tierra.

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  Día de los Veteranos, Paz, Guerra

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• There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Drunk, Devil

  "Natural Law". Harvard Law Review, 1918.

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• El destino trató de ocultarlo dándole el nombre de Smith.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Fate, Names, Nicknames

  "Poor Boys Who Became Great". Book by S. F. Smith, 1888.

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