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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.
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Iconoclasm
Rough
Honesty
Truth
Work
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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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But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
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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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Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.
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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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Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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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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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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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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I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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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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Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
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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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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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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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I like children I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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