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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
Physician Writer
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University Teacher
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sr.
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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 goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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America is the only place where man is full-grown!
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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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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall.
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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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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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Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
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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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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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Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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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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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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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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