Genius does not herd with genius.
More Quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes:
Wake in our breast the living fires, The holy faith that warmed our sires Thy hand hath made our nation free To die for her is serving Thee.Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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Ay, tear her tattered ensign down Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky. Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannons roar The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more.
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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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