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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.
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Rarely
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Light
Truth
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Cupid the little greatest enemy.
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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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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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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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Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.
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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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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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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
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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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Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
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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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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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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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Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.
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