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Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.
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.
Consistent
Simply
True
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A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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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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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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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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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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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.
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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 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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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist two to one, he is a pedant.
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Cupid the little greatest enemy.
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.
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