The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
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They walked over the crackling leaves in the garden, between the lines of box, breathing its fragrance of eternity for this is one of the odors which carry us out of time into the abysses of the unbeginning past if we ever lived on another ball of stone than this, it must be that there was box growing on it.Oliver Wendell Holmes
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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.
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Off with the spoils of wrinkled age!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Have the courage to act instead of react.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.
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