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Life is a roar of bargain and battle, but in the very heart of it there rises a mystic spiritual tone that gives meaning to the whole. It transmutes the dull details into romance. It reminds is that our only but wholly adequate significance is as parts of the unimaginable whole. It suggests that even while living we are living to ends outside ourselves
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Address to the Harvard Alumni Association to the Class of '61, in Speeches (1913), p. 96.

 

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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