Oliver Wendell Holmes

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    “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!”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “A great calamity ... is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)