Oliver Wendell Quotes
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Oliver Wendell
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"People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way?'"
Oliver Wendell
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People
"A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure"
Oliver Wendell
"If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up"
Oliver Wendell
"The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books"
Oliver Wendell
"One has to strike the jugular and let the rest go"
Oliver Wendell
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Rest
"The first of all other virtues - for other people"
Oliver Wendell
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People
"There is no such thing as a female punster"
Oliver Wendell
"Our honest Puritan festival is spreading, not as formerly, as a kind of opposition Christmas, but as a welcome prelude and adjunct, a brief interval of good cheer and social rejoicing, heralding the longer season of feasting and rest from labor in th"
Oliver Wendell
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Christmas
"A man must get a thing before he can forget it"
Oliver Wendell
"A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color"
Oliver Wendell
"Self-abnegation, that rare virtue, that good men preach and good women practice"
Oliver Wendell
"With effervescing opinions, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them get exposed to the air"
Oliver Wendell
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Opinions
"We can forgive a man the defects of his qualities, if only he has the qualities of his defects"
Oliver Wendell
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Man
"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all."
Oliver Wendell
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Sin
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
Oliver Wendell
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Truth
"God's plan made a hopeful beginning. But man spoiled his chances by sinning. We trust that the story will end in God's glory. But, at present, the other side's winning."
Oliver Wendell
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Sin
"Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks."
Oliver Wendell
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Conventionality
"And now they keep an oyster shop for mermaids down below."
Oliver Wendell
"Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom."
Oliver Wendell
Topics:
Beauty
Wisdom
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