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Danh ngôn của Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (Sứ mệnh: 4)

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.
Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.