The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
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These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green This is the scholar whose immortal pen Spells the first lesson hunger taught to men These are the lines that heavencommanded Toil Shows on his deed, the charter of the soil.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Genius does not herd with genius.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Don't be "consistent" but be simple true.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
God reigneth. All is well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Their discords sting through Burns and Moore, Like hedgehogs dressed in lace.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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