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Have the courage to act instead of react.
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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Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall.
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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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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.
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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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The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.
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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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America is the only place where man is full-grown!
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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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Cupid the little greatest enemy.
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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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