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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.
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
Novelist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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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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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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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.
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Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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Cupid the little greatest enemy.
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No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
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