Beliefs must be lived in for a good while, before they accommodate themselves to the soul's wants, and wear loose enough to be comfortable.
(Elsie Venner, 1859)
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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