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

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Calamity

Old

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Society

Flies

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Music

Fame

Magic

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Men

Controversy

Fools

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

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Time

First

Old

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Right

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Time

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

History

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Happiness

Running

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Courage

Act

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

Oliver Wendell Holmes