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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Age: 85 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 29
Died: 1894
Died: October 7
Medical Writer
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,-- Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
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Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.
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Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
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Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.
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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.
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Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
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Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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