What you bring away from the Bible depends to some extent on what you carry to it.
More Quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes:
Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
Husband and wife come to look alike at last.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
And hast thou cities, domes, and towers,
And life, and love that makes it dear,
And death that fills thy tribes with fear?
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Now Landlord Porter, grave, concise, severe, Master, nay, monarch in his proper sphere, Though to belles-lettres he pretended not, Lived close to Harvard, so knew what was what
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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