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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 6939 |
| AUTHOR: | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) |
| QUOTATION: | 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! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The chambered Nautilus. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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