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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
Physician
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University Teacher
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
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The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.
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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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Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive.
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The Amen of nature is always a flower.
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Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.
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Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.
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It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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