A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
(Quoted in The Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1899)
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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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