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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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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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Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.
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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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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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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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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
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Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
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The best servant does his work unseen.
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
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