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Quotes By Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Age

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All limitations are self-imposed.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Belief, Self

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Arches National Park

Knowledge and timber shouldn’t be much used till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Experience, Knowledge

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Grand Teton National Park

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Education, Leadership

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Grand Teton National Park

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

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Honesty, Truth

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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Adversity, Courage, Faith, Life, Obstacles

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Capital Reef National Park

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Money, Trust

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Hawaii, Maui

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Thinking

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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Common Sense

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Yellowstone National Park

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Destiny

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Yosemite National Park

The great act of faith is when man decides that he is not God.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Faith

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Yellowstone National Park

Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Faith

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Grand Teton National Park

One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation evermore.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Conviction, Honor

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Arches National Park

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Integrity, Principle, Values

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I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Action, Passion

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In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Cooperation, Intelligence

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Yellowstone National Park

Man’s mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Awareness, Perception, Self, Thinking

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Hana, Hawaii, Maui

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Action, Goals, Purpose

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Lake Tahoe

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Anger, Communication, Conflict, Freedom, Leadership, Liberty, Listening, Peace, Society

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