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To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
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
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Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.
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For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.
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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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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
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Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.
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Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.
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Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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The Amen of nature is always a flower.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.
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Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
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But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
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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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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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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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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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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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