#Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

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A mind stretched by new experiences can never return to its former dimensions. —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (loosely; from Chapter XI of The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, 1858)

I have posted this elsewhere here, tacked on to the tail end of a long reblog, but I went to reference it the other day and wanted to have it—one of my life-long favorite quotes—in a post of its own for easy reference. (Especially because it’s a widely mis-attributed quote, usually to his son, the more famous Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr: Death tugs at my ear

‘Death tugs at my ear and says, “Live, I am coming.”‘ —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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“Every man of reflection is vaguely conscious of an imperfectly-defined circle which is drawn about his intellect. He has a perfectly clear sense that the fragments of his intellectual circle include the curves of many other minds of which he is cognizant. He often recognizes these as manifestly concentric with his own, but of less radius. On the other hand, when we find a portion of an arc outside of our own, we say it intersects ours, but are very slow to confess or to see that it circumscribes it. Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.  --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. in The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, published in The Atlantic Monthly, September 1858.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr: Bought my family customized t-shirts with my face on them. They loved it.

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HUFFLEPUFF: "Don’t flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become." –Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table)

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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer. More Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. attempting to court Fanny Longfellow immediately after she rejected Henry is the highlight not only of my day, but possibly the highlight of my whole life.

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Poem of the Week

Daily Trials by a Sensitive Man Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Oh, there are times When all this fret and tumult that we hear Do seem more stale than to the sexton’s ear His own dull chimes. Ding dong! ding dong! The world is in a simmer like a sea Over a pent volcano,—woe is me All the day long! From crib to shroud! Nurse o’er our cradles screameth lullaby, And friends in boots tramp round us as we…

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. - RIP 1894.

Médico y poeta estadounidense. Falleció en Boston, Massachusetts, el 7 de octubre de 1894, a los 85 años de edad.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr: Mind of a bigot

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

—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet, novelist, essayist, and physician (29 Aug 1809-1894). 

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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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Holmes Sr. and Jr. don’t mean to antagonize one another. It just happens. On a daily basis. Intentionally.

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SLYTHERIN: “Nothing is more common than the wish to be remarkable.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table)

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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. More Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr