Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

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• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.:

  Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of wa

• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.:

  But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.:

  Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.

• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.:

  Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.:

  Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.:

  It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.:

  I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are mov

• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.:

  There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome

• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.:

  A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never si

• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.:

  Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use i