Frases de Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. fue un médico de profesión, que ganó fama como escritor y se convirtió en uno de los poetas estadounidenses más reconocidos del siglo XIX. Uno de sus hijos, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., fue uno de los más célebres jueces del Tribunal Supremo de los Estados Unidos.

Era hijo de Abiel Holmes , un clérigo calvinista y ávido historiador que escribió los Anales de América y poesías, y su segunda mujer, Sarah Wendell, hija de una importante familia de Nueva York.

Estudió en la Phillips Academy en Andover, Massachusetts, y en el Harvard College. Ganó fama con su poema «Old Ironsides» sobre la fragata decimonónica USS Constitution, cuyo destino era el desguace. El poema tuvo tanta fama que se decidió convertir a la fragata en un monumento en vez de desguazarla. En otro de sus poemas, se refirió al terremoto que sacudió Lisboa en el año 1755.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, fue uno de los fundadores del pragmatismo. Perteneció a un grupo llamado «El club de los metafísicos», con colaboradores de la talla de Chauncey Wright, Charles Peirce o William James. El fruto de este club fue el pragmatismo, movimiento filosófico basado en las ideas de Bain, Darwin y Kant. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. agosto 1809 – 7. octubre 1894
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Frases célebres de Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes Frases y Citas

“Aquello que sale del corazón, lleva el matiz y el calor de su lugar de origen.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Variante: Aquello que sale del corazón, lleva el matiz y el calor de su lugar de origen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes: Frases en inglés

“I talk half the time to find out my own thoughts, as a school-boy turns his pockets inside out to see what is in them. One brings to light all sorts of personal property he had forgotten in his inventory.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fuente: The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872), Ch. 1, p. 1 The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Vol. 3 https://books.google.com/books?id=Rx9EAAAAYAAJ (1892)

“Thine eye was on the censer,
And not the hand that bore it.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Lines by a Clerk; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“There is that glorious Epicurean paradox uttered by my friend the Historian, in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries." To this must certainly be added that other saying of one of the wittiest of men: "Good Americans when they die go to Paris."”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Holmes attributed the remark "Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris" to "one of the wittiest of men". Later writers have attributed the saying to friend and fellow Saturday Club member Thomas Gold Appleton. In 1859, Ralph Waldo Emerson, also a member of that club, recorded in one of his journals, "T. Appleton says, that he thinks all Bostonians, when they die, if they are good, go to Paris." Emerson in His Journals, ed. Joel Porte (1982), p. 486. Neither sentence has been found in the published writings of Appleton, but the remark may have been made in the presence of Holmes and Emerson. Oscar Wilde used the Holmes version in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), p. 75 (Complete Works, vol. 4, 1923), and A Woman of No Importance (1893), p. 180 (Complete Works, vol. 7, 1923).
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)

“Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. How terrible is the one fact of beauty!”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A Mortal Antipathy (1885) This statement is often misquoted as "Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness".

“Then the white man hates him [the Native American], and hunts him down like the wild beasts of the forest, and so the red-crayon sketch is rubbed out, and the canvas is ready for a picture of manhood a little more like God's own image.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The Pilgrims of Plymouth" http://www.unz.org/Pub/BrainerdCephas-1901v02-00267 (Oration, December 22, 1855), in Cephas Brainerd and Eveline Warner Brainerd (eds), The New England Society Orations: Volume II. New York: The Century Co., 1901, p. 298.

“And silence, like a poultice, comes
To heal the blows of sound.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

To an Insect; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“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.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

What we all think; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare Browning, Paracelsus: "God! Thou art love! I build my faith on that".

“Did I not say to you a little while ago that the universe swam in an ocean of similitudes and analogies?”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Earlier in the chapter Holmes says that all the comparisons and analogies ever made "would be but a cupful from the infinite ocean of similitudes and analogies that rolls through the universe".
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)

“Speak not too well of one who scarce will know
Himself transfigured in its roseate glow;
Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true,
Remembering always he belongs to you;
Deal with him as a truant, if you will,
But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Poem", read at a dinner given for the author by the medical profession of the City of New York (April 12, 1883); reported in The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, ed. Eleanor M. Tilton (1895, rev. 1975), p. 71.

“And when you stick on conversation’s burrs,
Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A rhymed Lesson. Urania; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“When the last reader reads no more.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The last Reader; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“And since, I never dare to write
As funny as I can.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Height of the Ridiculous; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“When lawyers take what they would give
And doctors give what they would take.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Latterday Warnings; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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