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The best servant does his work unseen.
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
Sr.
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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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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.
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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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Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.
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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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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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The Amen of nature is always a flower.
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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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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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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
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America is the only place where man is full-grown!
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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