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Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.
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
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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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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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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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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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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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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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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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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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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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America is the only place where man is full-grown!
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The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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