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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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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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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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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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Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
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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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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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Have the courage to act instead of react.
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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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Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
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No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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