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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
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...
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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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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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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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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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Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.
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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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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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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
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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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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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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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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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The Amen of nature is always a flower.
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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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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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