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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!
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Age: 85 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 29
Died: 1894
Died: October 7
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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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Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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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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We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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The best servant does his work unseen.
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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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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
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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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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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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 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 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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Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.
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