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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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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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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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Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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Cupid the little greatest enemy.
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Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
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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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Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
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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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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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Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
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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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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