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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Soul
Man
Worth
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Education
Facts
Learning
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Direction
World
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
People
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Men
Advice
Books
Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Man
Stupidity
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Breeding
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Word
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
People
Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
People
Facts
Quick
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Science
Common sense
First
Man
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Work
Truth
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Nature