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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...
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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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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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What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong.
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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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To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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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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Have the courage to act instead of react.
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The best servant does his work unseen.
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Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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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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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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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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Cupid the little greatest enemy.
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The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.
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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 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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