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Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.
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
Poet
University Teacher
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sr.
Tugs
Ears
Coming
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Death
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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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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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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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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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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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The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
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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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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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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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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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To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
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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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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist two to one, he is a pedant.
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Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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Cupid the little greatest enemy.
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