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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
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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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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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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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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What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong.
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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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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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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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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?
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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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