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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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One of the best regarded American poets of the 19th century.. American physician poet professor lecturer and author


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Quote Left Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. Quote Right
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Quote Left I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions -- adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. Quote Right
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Quote Left Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. Quote Right
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Quote Left Greatness is not where we stand but in what direction we are moving Quote Right
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Quote Left When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman Quote Right
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Book: Reflection on the Important Things