OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
Editor's Note
This is the physician and poet, not his son of the same name who was a Supreme Court Justice and famous in his own right. Very early on Dr. Holmes became my mentor and guide in the philosophy of medicine. Though his world-wide fame was based on his prose and poetry, he was an eminent leader in medicine. Many—too many years ago I would often assign Holmes' "Medical Essays" to a medical student whose sharp edges of science needed some rounding-off with a touch of humanity. I have no longer the privilege of assigning anything to anybody, yet encourage any of you, especially any who may be physicians, to read the thoughts of a family doctor of the early 1800's.
A misprint kills a sensitive authorAbsolute, peremptory facts are bulliesAdvised every literary man to have aprofession.Afraid of books who have not handledthem from infancyAge and neglect united graduallyAgreed on certain ultimata of beliefAlgebraic symbols of minds which havegrown too weakAll his geese are swansAll men are bores, except when we wantthemAll men love all womenAll the forms of moral excellence,except truthAll want to reach old age and grumblewhen they get itAnd now we two are walking the longpath in peace togetherAnother privilege of talking is tomisquoteArc in the movement of a largeintellectAs I understand truthAs to clever people's hating each otherAs a child, he should have tumbledabout in a libraryAsked Solon what made him dare to be soobstinateAssume a standard of judgment in ourown mindsAt the mercy of every superior mindAudacious self-esteem, with good groundfor itAutomatic and involuntary actions ofthe mindBabbage's calculating machineBe very careful to whom you trust oneof these keysBeautiful effects from wit,—all theprismatic colorsBeen in the same precise circumstancesbeforeBehave like men and gentlemen about it,if you know how.Beliefs are rooted in human wants andweakness, and die hardBells which small trades-people connectwith their shop-doorsBetter for mankind,—and all the worsefor the fishesBetter too few words, from the woman weloveBewitching cup of self-quackery...BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!
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