“I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.”
“I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.“They ended up at the Old Corner Bookstore, which Brian had read about in a tour guide to Boston. "Longfellow and Hawthorne and Oliver Wendell Holmes used to read here. Let's go in." Brian nudged the girls until they obeyed.It was a regular bookstore, less history-minded than Brian had expected. In fact, the local history shelves were quite mangeable. I'll buy one book, he thought. This will get me launched in actual reading. Out of the zillions of choices, I'll find one here.Brian picked out Paul Revere and the World He Lived In. It was thick and somehow exciting, with its chapter headings and scholarly notes and bibliography.”
Caroline B. Cooney“When the style is fully formed if it has a sweet undersong we call it beautiful and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes“We must think things not words or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand if we are to keep to the real and the true.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes“Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes“When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes“Man has his will - but woman has her way.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes“Don't be consistent but be simply true.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes“Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes“Life is a great bundle of little things.”
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