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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.
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
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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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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Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
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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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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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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 obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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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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Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
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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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