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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.
Sought
Rarely
Comes
Light
Truth
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Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.
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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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The Amen of nature is always a flower.
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To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
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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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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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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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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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What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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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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It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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America is the only place where man is full-grown!
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
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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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No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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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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Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
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