Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

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About Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (29 August 1809 – 8 October 1894) was an American physician, writer, poet, and the father of US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Alternative Names: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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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!

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