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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
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University Teacher
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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!'.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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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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Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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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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Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
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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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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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I like children I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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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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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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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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Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.
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America is the only place where man is full-grown!
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
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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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