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✵ 29. augusztus 1809 – 7. október 1894
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“Some of the sharpest men in argument are notoriously unsound in judgment.”

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)

“What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!”

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Forrás: The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. I.

“Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words…”

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Forrás: The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872), p. 266 The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Vol. 3 (1892)

“But Memory blushes at the sneer,
And Honor turns with frown defiant,
And Freedom, leaning on her spear,
Laughs louder than the laughing giant.”

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A good Time going; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Scientific knowledge, even in the most modest persons, has mingled with it a something which partakes of insolence. Absolute, peremptory facts are bullies, and those who keep company with them are apt to get a bullying habit of mind.”

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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)

“Where go the poet's lines?
Answer, ye evening tapers!
Ye auburn locks, ye golden curls,
Speak from your folded papers!”

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The Poet's Lot; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“What's the use in our caring about hard words after this,—'atheists,' heretics, infidels, and the like? They're, after all, only the cinders picked up out of those heaps of ashes round the stumps of the old stakes where they used to burn men, women, and children for not thinking just like other folks.”

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Oliver Wendell Holmes könyv Elsie Venner

Elsie Venner (1859)

“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer.”

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Forrás: The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. XI.

“I won't say, the more intellect, the less capacity for loving; for that would do wrong to the understanding and reason;—but, on the other hand, that the brain often runs away with the heart's best blood, which gives the world a few pages of wisdom or sentiment or poetry, instead of making one other heart happy, I have no question.”

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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)

“The soul of a man has a series of concentric envelopes round it, like the core of an onion, or the innermost of a nest of boxes. First he has his natural garment of flesh and blood. Then, his artificial integuments, with their true skin of solid stuffs, their cuticle of lighter tissues, and their variously tinted pigments. Thirdly, his domicile, be it a single chamber or a stately mansion. And then, the whole visible world, in which Time buttons him up as in a loose outside wrapper.”

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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)

“You don't know, perhaps, but I will tell you; the brain is the palest of all the internal organs, and the heart the reddest. Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.”

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Forrás: The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. VI.

“Most persons have died before they expire, — died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.”

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Forrás: The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. XI.

“The mossy marbles rest
On the lips that he has prest
In their bloom;
And the names he loved to hear
Have been carved for many a year
On the tomb.”

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The last Leaf; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“His home! the Western giant smiles,
And twirls the spotty globe to find it;
This little speck, the British Isles?
’T is but a freckle,—never mind it.”

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A good Time going; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.”

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Elsie Venner (1859)

“Boston State-house is the hub of the solar system. You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crow-bar.”

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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)

“O hearts that break and give no sign
Save whitening lip and fading tresses!”

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The Voiceless; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“So from the heights of Will
Life's parting stream descends,
And, as a moment turns its slender rill,
Each widening torrent bends,

From the same cradle's side,
From the same mother's knee,
—One to long darkness and the frozen tide,
One to the Peaceful Sea!”

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"The Two Streams", Ch. VI.
The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859)

“When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when he has lost all his illusions, his feathers will soon soak through, and he will fly no more.”

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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)

“"I suppose you are an entomologist?"
"Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name. No man can be truly called an entomologist, sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp".”

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The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872)

“All of us love companionship and sympathy; some of us may love them too much. All of us are more or less imaginative in our theology.”

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Elsie Venner (1859)

“The creative action is not voluntary at all, but automatic; we can only put the mind into the proper attitude, and wait for the wind, that blows where it listeth, to breathe over it. Thus the true state of creative genius is allied to reverie, or dreaming.”

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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)

“You hear that boy laughing?—you think he’s all fun;
But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done;
The children laugh loud as they troop to his call,
And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.”

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The Boys; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“You can hire logic, in the shape of a lawyer, to prove anything that you want to prove.”

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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)

“Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay,
That was built in such a logical way
It ran a hundred years to a day?”

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The Deacon's Masterpiece; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“The brightest blades grow dim with rust,
The fairest meadow white with snow.”

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Chanson without Music; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.”

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No Time like the old Time; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“I try his head occasionally as housewives try eggs,— give it an intellectual shake and hold it up to the light, so to speak, to see if it has life in it, actual or potential, or only contains lifeless albumen.”

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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)

“Each woman virtually summons every man to show cause why he doth not love her.”

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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)