I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.
More Quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes:
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
Thou say'st an undisputed thing In such a solemn way.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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