Tiny Matters

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
—    Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Mostly Unconsciously For Most People

Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like.
—    Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Revere And Criticize

I trust no one will understand me to be speaking with disrespect of the law, because I criticize it so freely.  I venerate the law, and especially our system of law as one of the vastest products of the human mind…  But one may criticize even what one reveres.
—   Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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At The Center

We are very quiet here, but it is the quiet of a storm center, as we all know.
—     Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The Soldier’s Faith

I do not know what is true.  I do not know the meaning of the universe.  But in the midst of doubt, in the collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt, that no man who lives in the same world with most of us can doubt, and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause which he little understands, in a plan of campaign of which he has little notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use.
—     Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
An address on Memorial Day,
May 30, 1895,
at a Meeting Called by the Graduating Class of Harvard University.
The speech is generally known as “The Soldier’s Faith“
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How Will You Be Judged?

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
—    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
An address delivered for Memorial Day,
May 30, 1884,
at Keene, NH,
before John Sedgwick Post No. 4,
Grand Army of the Republic.
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