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The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

CHAPTER XI
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After this, consult your taste and convenient.

But if you would be happy in Berkshire, you must carry mountains in your brain; and if you would enjoy Nahant, you must have an ocean in your soul.

Nature plays at dominos with you; you must match her piece, or she will never give it up to you.
-- The schoolmistress said, in a rather mischievous way, that she was afraid some minds or souls would be a little crowded, if they took in the Rocky Mountains or the Atlantic.
Have you ever read the little book called "The Stars and the Earth ?"--said I .-- Have you seen the Declaration of Independence photographed in a surface that a fly's foot would cover?
The forms or conditions of Time and Space, as Kant will tell you, are nothing in themselves,--only our way of looking at things.

You are right, I think, however, in recognizing the category of Space as being quite as applicable to minds as to the outer world.

Every man of reflection is vaguely conscious of an imperfectly-defined circle which is drawn about his intellect.


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