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• Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here
  But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer!...
• The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom
  And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb....
• Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll!
  Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!...
• The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye.
  The more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract....
• And when you stick on conversation's burrs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- A Rhymed Lesson, Urania...
• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. -- Oliver Wendell Holme
• Humility is the first of the virtues -- for other people. -- Oliver Wendell Holme
• Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed. -- Oliver Wendell Holme