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• Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale!
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- Old Ironside...
• Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, vi...
• 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....
• Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)...
• Thine eye was on the censer, And not the hand that bore it.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- Lines by a Clerk...
• Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)...
• Old age is fifteen years older than I am. Oliver Wendell Holme
• The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
  Oliver Wendell Holme...
• The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye.
  The more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract....