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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
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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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Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
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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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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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Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
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The Amen of nature is always a flower.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.
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Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
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I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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Cupid the little greatest enemy.
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