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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Beauty, Past, Beautiful Women

Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.31, Reprint Services Corporation

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 Sr.

Life, Art, Past

Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.98, Reprint Services Corporation