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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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More quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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.
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
America is the only place where man is full-grown!
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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.
