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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.
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
Poet
University Teacher
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sr.
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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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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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Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.
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Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,-- Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!
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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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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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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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I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
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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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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
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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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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
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