Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quote Explained: I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.

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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

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It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. Explain

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. Explain

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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Eye
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The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. Explain

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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Wisdom

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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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Simple people… are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Physician

· USA

I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.

I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. Explain

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. Explain

The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. Explain

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Simple people… are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

The purpose of art is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others.

Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.

I have a large number of cassettes, but I look at them mainly for reference purposes.

Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning.

I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.

It is only habit and routine that makes the void look like purpose.

We have a no puke rule. The purpose is performance, not puking.

But what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things?

I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.

I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.

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