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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.
Time
Sympathy
Eternity
Sea
Either
Humanity
Drowns
Forever
Monotonous
Song
Sings
Ever
Belongs
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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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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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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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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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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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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.
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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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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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