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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
Poet
University Teacher
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sr.
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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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I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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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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The Amen of nature is always a flower.
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No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
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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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Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,-- Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!
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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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Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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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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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
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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.
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Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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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!'.
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.
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