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

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Have the courage to act instead of react.
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
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.
Love prefers twilight to daylight.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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.
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.