Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes - Page 5

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• Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Cities, Sound, Chicago

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 2”, p.236, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Life, Art, Past

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.98, Reprint Services Corporation

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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!'.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Thinking, Fame, Individual

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1873). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.335

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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!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Maids, Shade, Might

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1863). “The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes”, p.319

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• 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.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Science, Men, Common Sense

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1887). “The "Breakfast-table" Series: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table; The Professor at the Breakfast- Table; The Poet at the Breakfast- Table”

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• We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Twilight, Dawn, Gone

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1875). “Songs of Many Seasons : 1862-1874”, p.110

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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.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Men, Philanthropy, Ends

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Richard A. Posner (1997). “The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.”, p.95, University of Chicago Press

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• Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Retirement, Home, Feet

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 1”, p.371, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Cupid "the little greatest enemy."

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Life, Enemy, Littles

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• Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Truth, Honesty, Iconoclasm

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.117, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Trying, Library, Should

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “The Poet at the Breakfast Table”, p.212, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Love, Children, Suffering

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1846). “Urania: a Rhymed Lesson”, p.15

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