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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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.
Rough
Honesty
Truth
Work
Way
Iconoclasm
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
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For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.
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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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Have the courage to act instead of react.
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The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.
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No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
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Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.
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Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
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The Amen of nature is always a flower.
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America is the only place where man is full-grown!
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Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
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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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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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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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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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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,-- Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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