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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving.
Blank cheques of intellectual bankruptcy.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was born on August 18, 1809, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A graduate of Harvard Medical School in 1836, he became a respected physician, professor, and writer. His medical career was marked by groundbreaking discoveries, including his pioneering research on the cause of puerperal fever, in which he argued that the disease was contagious and transmitted by physicians. Although his ideas initially faced resistance, they were eventually widely accepted and led to significant improvements in hospital hygiene.
Parallel to his medical career, Holmes developed a prolific career as a poet, essayist, and lecturer. His poems, often characterized by their humor, wit, and reflections on life and society, made him one of the most popular poets in the United States during his time. He was one of the founders of the literary magazine The Atlantic Monthly in 1857, where he published many of his best-known essays. Holmes was also an active member of Boston's intellectual life, participating in literary clubs and scientific societies.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. passed away on October 7, 1894, in Boston, Massachusetts. His legacy endures in both medicine and literature, and he is remembered as one of the most influential figures of the 19th century in the United States. His son, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., followed in his father's footsteps, becoming a prominent jurist and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.