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Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The Bible's aim, as I read it, is not the freeing of the spirit from the world. It is the handbook of their interaction.
— Wendell Berry
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men
from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
He loved the woods, where it seemed to him that every life was secret, including his own.
— Wendell Berry
There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.
— Wendell Berry
The way of education leads away from home. That is what we learned from our children's education.
— Wendell Berry
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
But this is not the story of a life. It is the story of lives, knit together, overlapping in succession, rising again from grave after grave.
— Wendell Berry
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.
Georgius Secundus was then alive,
Snuffy old drone from the German hive. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Georgius Secundus was then alive,
Snuffy old drone from the German hive. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
— Wendell Berry
The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
In solitude, we lose our loneliness.
— Wendell Berry
The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.
— Wendell Berry
A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.
— Wendell Berry
You don't need all that. All you need is Jesus!
— Wendell Burton
When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.
— Wendell Berry
The petitioner may have a constitutional right to talk politics, but he has no constitutional right to be a policeman.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The best servant does his work unseen.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.
— Wendell Berry
If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
All good human work remembers its history.
— Wendell Berry
Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
— Wendell Phillips
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.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
To mind being disliked by a woman you don't desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.
— Wendell Berry
Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Why can't somebody give us a list of things everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of the things that everybody says but nobody thinks?
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.
— Wendell Phillips
Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
— Wendell Phillips
Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me.
— Wendell Berry
There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The world had become pretty generally Ceceliafied.
— Wendell Berry
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Troy went into debt and bought his new equipment because he didn't want to be held back by demanding circumstances.
— Wendell Berry
Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this.
— Wendell Berry
A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.
— Wendell Phillips
The heart is the best logician.
— Wendell Phillips
I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
— Wendell Wilkie
God gives manhood but one clew to success,
utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency. — Wendell Phillips
utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency. — Wendell Phillips
Whenever an actor was going to die, I tried to help them understand not to take it personally. It wasn't about them. It's the story.
— Wendell Pierce
Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated ... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.
— Wendell Phillips
One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.
— Wendell Berry
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away.
— Wendell Berry
Every idea is an incitement ... eloquence may set fire to reason.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Right is the eternal sun; the world cannot delay its coming.
— Wendell Phillips
We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.
— Wendell Berry
You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.
— Wendell Berry
Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.
— Wendell Phillips
We should be worrying about Wall Street - run health care.
— Wendell Potter
It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.
— Wendell Berry
I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead.
— Wendell Berry
We are living even now among punishments and ruins.
— Wendell Berry
Free men are the strongest men.
— Wendell Willkie
I should like to see any kind of man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed
— Wendell Berry
People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.
— Wendell Berry
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
— Wendell Phillips
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
— Wendell Phillips
History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.
— Wendell Berry
Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Stories work, if they have a beginning, middle and end.
— Wendell Pierce
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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— Wendell Mayo
Ths visions of the mind have a debt to reality that it is hard to get the mind to pay when it is under the influence of its visions.
— Wendell Berry
The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.
— Wendell Pierce
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.