It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.Oliver Wendell Holmes
To reach the port of Heaven we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must sail, and not drift or lie at anchor.
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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.
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Off with the spoils of wrinkled age!
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