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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
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University Teacher
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.
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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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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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Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist two to one, he is a pedant.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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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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I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
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America is the only place where man is full-grown!
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall.
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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?
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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The Amen of nature is always a flower.
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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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Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
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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.
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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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