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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man\'s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn\'t got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
 Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

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Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
 Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
 Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
 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.
 Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
 Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.