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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.
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
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University Teacher
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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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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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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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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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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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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
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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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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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The Amen of nature is always a flower.
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Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.
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But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
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The best servant does his work unseen.
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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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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive.
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