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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes: People can be divided into two classes…

People can be divided into two classes those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way.

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Their discords sting through Burns and Moore, Like hedgehogs dressed in lace.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

They love to dally with the wire
As Isaac played with Esan's hair.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The flowering moments of the mind Drop half their petals in our speech.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be ... may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand. And so beyond the vision of battling races and an impoverished earth, I catch a dreaming glimpse of peace.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.
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