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Poem · Magazine

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past!

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Chambered Nautilus · 1858

★ 5.3

Magazine

Man has his will,—but woman has her way!

Oliver Wendell Holmes

This is It · 1857

★ 3.7

Essay

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

1831

★ 3.6

Autobiography and memoir

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Margaret Fuller

1850

★ 3.6

Magazine

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

No Time like the Old Time · 1865

★ 2.0

Magazine

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Margaret Fuller

1843

★ 1.9

Magazine

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every Man His Own Boswell · 1858

★ 1.9

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