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 not to have lived.

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

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To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be...

To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be...

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can...

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can...

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a...

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a...

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that...

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that...

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth...

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth...

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no...

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no...

Carve every word before you let it fall.

Carve every word before you let it fall.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more...

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more...

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is...

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is...

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be...

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be...

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our...

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our...

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that...

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that...

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that...

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that...

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you...

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you...