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A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions. ~

A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions. ~
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

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  1. Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
  2. A man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
  3. Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
  4. Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
  5. Science is the topography of ignorance. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
  6. 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 Sr
  7. The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,’The medicines of the soul. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
  8. The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
  9. Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
  10. Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world – and unless we touch others, we’re out of touch with life. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
  11. To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
  12. The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
  13. Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
  14. Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
  15. I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
  16. A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
  17. if one of two or more joint wrongdoers has to pay all the damages, he cannot recover contribution from his fellows. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
  18. We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. . – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
  19. I love youMy life stretched over a bridgeI need youMy life stretched over you – Kristian Goldmund Aumann
  20. This is what my high school life had become-”a horror show of epic, mind-???? proportions. – GG Silverman
  21. PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions. – Susan Pease Banitt
  22. Authority, reason, experience; on these three, mixed in varying proportions all our knowledge depends. – CS Lewis
  23. Whenever you take an action,Decide by both your brain and heart in equal proportions .Balance them as far as possible. – Bikash Bhandari
  24. Do not try to be your father boy, it is a hopeless pursuit, particularly when you, like I, have a father of such colossal proportions. – AH Septimius
  25. The world is crazy about amassing guns, bombs and wealth of humongous proportions, but it will not give knowledge a second glance! – Avijeet Das
  26. Hatred and food were served up in equal proportions at the Connor dining table as he was growing up. – Bill Ward
  27. Its the map of my childhood, my sadness, my Eden, my hell and home. when I look at it now, my heart swells with gratitude, then shrinks with disgust. – Otessa Moshfegh
  28. Yo Mama’s so fat, her ass has its own congressman! – Oliver Oliver Reed
  29. Let’s get mind stretched by God’s love letters written just for you – John M Sheehan
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  31. I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
  32. see the whole stretched out universe twinkles in its little hopelessness and the soul needs insignificance just like our little stars do. – Samuel J Dixey
  33. Imagination shrinks from the consequences. – Jude Morgan
  34. When we’re constantly thinking about ourselves, our world shrinks. – Seth Adam Smith
  35. Depression thrives in secrecy but shrinks in empathy. – Seth Adam Smith
  36. And what’s beyond vastness? It shrinks… – Jasleen Kaur Gumber
  37. The potential of your life experience shrinks or expands according to your ability to love. – Bryant McGill
  38. But space shrinks when you get old, and things lose their wonder, and the wisest thing to do then is to try your best to sleep. – Dexter Palmer
  39. To the untrue man, the whole universe is false–it is impalpable–it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  40. Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before,Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. – Alexander Pope

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