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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was an American physician, poet, and writer who made significant contributions to the field of medicine and influenced American literature and culture. He was a pioneer in the use of ether as an anesthetic and a leading figure in the medical community of his time.

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Famous Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes

“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”

Source: A Mortal Antipathy

“Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.”

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Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“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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Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.”

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Book:Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table

Source: Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table

“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.”

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Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”

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Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.”

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Book:The Fundamental Holmes: A Free Speech Chronicle and Reader - Selections from the Opinions, Books, Articles, Speeches, Letters and Other Writings by and about Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Source: The Fundamental Holmes: A Free Speech Chronicle and Reader - Selections from the Opinions, Books, Articles, Speeches, Letters and Other Writings by and about Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

About the Author

Born: August 29, 1809
Died: October 7, 1894
Known for: Physician
Quotes: 120

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Professor At The Breakfast TableRelated source material

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