Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

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...

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing...

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing...

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we...

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we...

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

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.

Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.

Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

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...

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you...

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you...

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.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in...

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in...

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...

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.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

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...

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist...

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist...

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

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...

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...