Call him not old whose visionary brain
Holds o'er the post its undivided reign,
For him in vain the envious seasons roll,
Who bears eternal summer in this soul.
Holds o'er the post its undivided reign,
For him in vain the envious seasons roll,
Who bears eternal summer in this soul.
(The Old Prayer, 1861)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. It is by little things that we know ourselves. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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