I find that 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.
(The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, 1858)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. It is by little things that we know ourselves. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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