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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (/hoʊmz/; August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast-Table" series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858). He was also an important medical reformer. In addition to his work as an author and poet, Holmes also served as a physician, professor, lecturer and inventor and, although he never practiced it, he received formal training in law.

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You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.

Contrary, Course, Courses, Genius, May, Probable

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

Common Sense, Men, Plenty, Science, Sense, Worse

Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.

Consistent, Simply, True

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Death, Die, Music, Sing, Win, Winning

The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.

Manhood, Politics, Race, Rudimental, Sketch, White

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?

Book, Books, Long, Ought, Reading

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

Man, Men, Soul, Umpires, Worry, Worrying

[Science is] piecemeal revelation.

Piecemeal, Revelation, Revelations, Science

When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe. . . that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-- that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment. As all life is an experiment. Every year if not every day we wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

Believe, Fighting, Free, Freedom, Imperfect, Time

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.

Funny, Inspirational, Spiritual, Under, Use, Willing

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

Caught, Men, Past, Reins, Run, Running

Simple people. . . are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

People, Perception, Quick, See, Simple

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Conscious, Dating, Friend, Friendship, Real Friends, Special

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Act, Courage, Fear, Instead, Veterans Day

Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.

Death, Ear, Ears, Live, Running, Says

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.

Brain, Carries, Color, Heart, Place

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

Nobody, Says, Science, Things, Thinking, Writing

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Knowledge, Life, Listen, Positive, Speak, Wisdom

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

Angel, Birthday, Gives, Key, Keys, Resurrection

What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong.

Beings, Divine, Evil, Numbers, Would Be

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