"Yet in opinions look not always back, — Your wake is nothi… - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Yet in opinions look not always back, — Your wake is nothing, mind the coming track;
Leave what you've done for what you have to do;
Don't be "consistent," but be simply true."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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