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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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.
Truth
Sought
Rarely
Comes
Light
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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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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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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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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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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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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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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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 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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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
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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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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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What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong.
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I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
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To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
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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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Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
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