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Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.
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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Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
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A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
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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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I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive.
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Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
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Cupid the little greatest enemy.
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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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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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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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The best servant does his work unseen.
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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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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall.
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