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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.
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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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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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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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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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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Cupid the little greatest enemy.
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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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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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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
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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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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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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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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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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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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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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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