Speeches by Oliver Wendell HolmesLittle, Brown, 1896 - 69 páginas |
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... knowledge which serves no mechanical end . Superfluous only as glory is superfluous , or a bit of red ribbon that a man would die to win . - - It has been one merit of Harvard College that it has never quite sunk to believing that its ...
... knowledge which serves no mechanical end . Superfluous only as glory is superfluous , or a bit of red ribbon that a man would die to win . - - It has been one merit of Harvard College that it has never quite sunk to believing that its ...
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... knowledge , you must master those which lie next to it ; and thus to know any- thing you must know all . Perhaps I speak too much the language of intellectual ambition . I cannot but think that the scope for intel- lectual , as for ...
... knowledge , you must master those which lie next to it ; and thus to know any- thing you must know all . Perhaps I speak too much the language of intellectual ambition . I cannot but think that the scope for intel- lectual , as for ...
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... knowledge , I for one abhor . The mark of a master is , that facts which before lay scattered in an inorganic mass , when he shoots through them the magnetic current of his thought , leap into an organic order , and live and bear fruit ...
... knowledge , I for one abhor . The mark of a master is , that facts which before lay scattered in an inorganic mass , when he shoots through them the magnetic current of his thought , leap into an organic order , and live and bear fruit ...
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... knowledge . It is from within the bar , not from outside , that I have heard the new gospel that learning is out of date , and that the man for the times is no longer the thinker and the scholar , but the smart man , unencumbered with ...
... knowledge . It is from within the bar , not from outside , that I have heard the new gospel that learning is out of date , and that the man for the times is no longer the thinker and the scholar , but the smart man , unencumbered with ...
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... knowledge , the young men of the present day start better equipped when they begin their practical experience than it was possible for their predecessors to have been . And although no school can boast a mo- nopoly of promising young ...
... knowledge , the young men of the present day start better equipped when they begin their practical experience than it was possible for their predecessors to have been . And although no school can boast a mo- nopoly of promising young ...
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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.