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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

“As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems as if we never know how much they have to tell until we are old ourselves and they have been gone twenty or thirty years. Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber.”

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Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“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?”

Thinking Giving Writing Science Lists

Book:The Professor at the Breakfast-table: With The Story of Iris

Source: The Professor at the Breakfast-table: With The Story of Iris

“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.

“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.”

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Book:From Day to Day with Holmes

Source: From Day to Day with Holmes

“The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.”

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Book:Professor At The Breakfast Table

Source: Professor At The Breakfast Table

“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!'.”

Thinking Individual Fame

Book:The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell

Source: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell