The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
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the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.Oliver Wendell Holmes
When the last reader reads no more.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I think, I said, I can make it plain to Benjamin Franklin here that there are at least six personalities distinctly to be recognized as taking part in that dialogue between John and Thomas. Three Johns 1. The real John known only to his Maker. 2. Johns ideal John never the real one, and often very unlike him. 3. Thomas ideal John never the real John, nor Johns John, but often very unlike either. Three Thomases 1. The real Thomas. 2. Thomas ideal Thomas. 3. Johns ideal Thomas.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Literature is full of coincidences, which some love to believe are plagiarisms. There are thoughts always abroad in the air which it takes more wit to avoid than to hit upon.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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