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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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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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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
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To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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America is the only place where man is full-grown!
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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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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.
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The best servant does his work unseen.
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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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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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The Amen of nature is always a flower.
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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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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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