Oliver Wendell Holmes’ Death – Cause and Date

The novelist Oliver Wendell died at the age of 85. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

A nineteenth-century physician, teacher, and author, he is famous for his Breakfast-Table prose series, as well as for his 1830 poem, ‘Old Ironsides.’ He was one of the famous Fireside Poets, a group that included William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, and James Russell Lowell.

He married Amelia Lee Jackson in 1840.

Quotes

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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

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I like children; I like ’em, and I respect ’em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn’t worth a damn.