The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants...

Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants...

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility;...

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility;...

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit...

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit...

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them:...

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them:...

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit...

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit...

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of...

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of...

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the...

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the...

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell...

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell...

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays, the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays, the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each...

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each...

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has...

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has...

Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for everyone thinks he is...

Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for everyone thinks he is...

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common...

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common...

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely...

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely...