Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea … - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. After looking at the Alps, I felt that my mind had been stretched beyond the limits of its elasticity, and fitted so loosely on my old ideas of space that I had to spread these to fit it.

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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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A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

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Wake in our breast the living fires,
The holy faith that warmed our sires;
Thy hand hath made our nation free;
To die for her is serving Thee.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels When the tired player shuffles off the buskin;
A page of Hood may do a fellow good After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin.

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