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Knowledge—it excites prejudices to call it science—is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
You hear that boy laughing?—you think he's all fun;
But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done;
The children laugh loud as they troop to his call,
And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Call him not old whose visionary brain
Holds o'er the post its undivided reign,
For him in vain the envious seasons roll,
Who bears eternal summer in this soul.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Little I ask, my wants are few;
I only wish a hut of stone,
(A very plain brown stone will do,)
That I may call my own;—
And close at hand is such a one,
In yonder street that fronts the sun.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
What I call a good patient is one, who having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
We forget that weakness is not in itself a sin. We forget that even cowardice may call for our most lenient judgment, if it spring from innate infirmity.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
How many have withered and wasted under as slow a torment in the walls of that larger Inquisition which we call Civilization!

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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, Sr.