Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable. Fam… - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable. Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else, - very rarely to those who say to themselves, "Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!"

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (29 August 1809 – 8 October 1894) was an American physician, writer, poet, and the father of US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

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One unquestioned text we read,
All doubt beyond, all fear above;
Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed Can burn or blot it—God is love.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

The brightest blades grow dim with rust, The fairest meadow white with snow.

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