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Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
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
Physician Writer
Poet
University Teacher
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sr.
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Beware
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Hope
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Humans
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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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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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.
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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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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
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Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.
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Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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