Oliver Wendell Holmes

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    “Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!
    Long has it waved on high,
    And many an eye has danced to see
    That banner in the sky;”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “And silence, like a poultice, comes
    To heal the blows of sound.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “They say that in his prime,
    Ere the pruning-knife of Time
    Cut him down,
    Not a better man was found
    By the Crier on his round
    Through the town.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)