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About Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  • Born: March 8, 1841
  • Died: March 6, 1935
  • Occupation: Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
    • War? war is an organized bore.
    War Bores Organized
    There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.
    Men Drunk Devil
    Fate tried to conceal him by naming him smith.
    Fate Names Nicknames
    People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
    Change People Details
    Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.
    Charity Poverty Pleading
    The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. it is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. it seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.
    Book Reading Ideas
    You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; but the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; the children laugh loud as they troop to his call, and the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.
    Children Fun Angel
    These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings the peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; this is the page whose letters shall be seen, changed by the sun to words of living green; this is the scholar whose immortal penspells the first lesson hunger taught to men; these are the lines that heaven-commanded toil shows on his deed, - the charter of the soil!
    Life Kings Men
    Who does not feel that nansen's account of his search for the pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?
    Satisfaction Gains Doe
    Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; fold the whole earth in peace.
    Veterans Day Peace War
    On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.
    Life Garden Roots
    I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. they carry no banners, they beat no drums; but where they are men learn that bustle and push are not the equals of quiet genius and serene mastery.
    Teacher Powerful Army
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