When in doubt, do it.

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how...

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how...

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;...

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think...

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think...

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history...

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history...

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...

The great end of living is to harmonize man with the order of things

The great end of living is to harmonize man with the order of things

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...

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he...

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he...

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We...

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We...

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;...

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than...

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than...

I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I...

I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I...

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

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

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot...

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot...

To explore what it would mean to live fully, sensually alive and passionately on purpose,...

To explore what it would mean to live fully, sensually alive and passionately on purpose,...

In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends...

In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends...