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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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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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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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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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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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Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.
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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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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
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Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
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