A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at the peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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