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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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University Teacher
Cambridge
Massachusetts
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For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.
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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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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall.
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We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist two to one, he is a pedant.
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I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
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The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.
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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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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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