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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
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...
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I like children I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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The best servant does his work unseen.
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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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Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
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Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
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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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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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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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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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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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