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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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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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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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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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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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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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall.
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Cupid the little greatest enemy.
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The Amen of nature is always a flower.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
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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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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.
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