• Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet 1809-1894
  

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Subjects in these quotes:

1. predestined
2. affirming
3. persist
4. worth
5. ideal

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Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. by : Oliver Wendell Holmes

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