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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
Brief author info: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American physician, professor, man of letters.
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The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.
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.
Humility is the first of the virtues-for other people.
There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, on the whole, as money. A man's learning dies with him; even his virtues fade out of remembrance; but the dividends on the stocks he bequeaths to his children live and keep his memory green.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor great scholars great men.
Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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Much happiness is overlooked because it doesn't cost anything.
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