Speeches by Oliver Wendell HolmesLittle, Brown, 1896 - 69 páginas |
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... skirmishers are at it , and listen for the long roll of fire from the main line . You meet an old comrade after many years of absence ; he recalls the moment when ―― you were nearly surrounded by the enemy , and 4 MEMORIAL DAY .
... skirmishers are at it , and listen for the long roll of fire from the main line . You meet an old comrade after many years of absence ; he recalls the moment when ―― you were nearly surrounded by the enemy , and 4 MEMORIAL DAY .
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... fire from a semi- circle of houses . His first platoon had vanished under it in an instant , ten men falling dead by his side . He had quietly turned back to where the other half of his company was waiting , had given the order ...
... fire from a semi- circle of houses . His first platoon had vanished under it in an instant , ten men falling dead by his side . He had quietly turned back to where the other half of his company was waiting , had given the order ...
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... fire . It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing . While we are permitted to scorn nothing but indifference , and do not pretend to undervalue the worldly rewards of ambition , we have seen ...
... fire . It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing . While we are permitted to scorn nothing but indifference , and do not pretend to undervalue the worldly rewards of ambition , we have seen ...
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... fire will feel that his main question has not been answered . He will ask , What is all this to my soul ? You do not bid me sell my birthright for a mess . of pottage ; what have you said to show that I can reach my own spiritual ...
... fire will feel that his main question has not been answered . He will ask , What is all this to my soul ? You do not bid me sell my birthright for a mess . of pottage ; what have you said to show that I can reach my own spiritual ...
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... fire . I suppose that those who were most familiar with his methods would point out as one secret of his success the fact that from the first instant that he was retained he began to shape his case with reference to its remotest ends ...
... fire . I suppose that those who were most familiar with his methods would point out as one secret of his success the fact that from the first instant that he was retained he began to shape his case with reference to its remotest ends ...
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ambition ANSWER TO RESOLUTIONS Antietam army Bartlett battle believe Bench Beowulf Cambridge church civilization combat command comrades Court dead death deep dark grave destiny DOCTOR OF LAWS doubt duty enemy England eyes fact fate FEBRUARY FEBRUARY 12 feeling fell fight fire forgotten glory Harvard College Harvard Law School HARVARD UNIVERSITY hear heard heart honor hope ideal imagine imparted intellectual judge JUNE 25 Justice knew knowledge known Langdell lawyers learned least less lives Massachusetts master MEMORIAL DAY men's mightier monument never OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES once one's passion perhaps PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN principles Puritan regiment remember reverence sacred seemed seen SEPTEMBER 15 share silence Sir James Stephen soldier SOLDIER'S FAITH song soul speak specialists spiritual subtile sword symbol teach law things thinker Thomas Shepard thought tion UNIVERSITY WILLIAM ALLEN words wounds young
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Página 10 - But, when the days of golden dreams had perished, And even Despair was powerless to destroy; Then did I learn how existence could be cherished, Strengthened, and fed without the aid of joy.
Página 10 - Sternly denied its burning wish to hasten Down to that tomb already more than mine. And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain ; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
Página 3 - 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.
Página 23 - If your subject is law, the roads are plain to anthropology, the science of man, to political economy, the theory of legislation, ethics, and thus by several paths to your final view of life.
Página 61 - Not of the sunlight, Not of the moonlight, Not of the starlight ! O young Mariner, Down to the haven, Call your companions, Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, Follow The Gleam.
Página 68 - But the present has a right to govern itself so far as it can; and it ought always to be remembered that historic continuity with the past is not a duty, it is only a necessity.
Página 25 - Thus only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that, a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten, men who never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought— the...
Página 62 - War, when you are at it, is horrible and dull. It is only when time has passed that you see that its message was divine. I hope it may be long before we are called again to sit at that master's feet. But some teacher of the kind we all need. In this snug, over-safe corner of the world we need it, that we may realize that our comfortable routine is no...
Página 24 - For I say to you in all sadness of conviction, that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only, when you have worked alone — when you have felt around you a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man — and in hope and in despair have trusted to your own unshaken will, then only you will have achieved.