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I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music.
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I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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On every stem, on every leaf ... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.
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Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
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Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
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The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
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Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
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The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
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Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like.
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Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
(also attributed to Bernard Baruch in slightly different form)
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