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Quotes from The Old Player — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

1809–1894 United States

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Death only grasps; to live is to pursue, —
Dream on! there's nothing but illusion true!

The Old Player (1861)

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.

The Old Player (1861)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.