Edward Joseph Young Quotes
In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
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When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.
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Giving opens the way for receiving.
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With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow; And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd - 'I came like Water, and like Wind I go'.
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Critics, you have been so kind, I would not have you think me blind To all the wisdom that you preach; Yet before I strictlier run In straiter lines of chiselled speech, Give me one more hour, just one Hour to hunt the fairy gleam That flutters through this childish dream.
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Dawn, ever bearing some divine increase Of beauty, love, and wisdom round the world, Dawn, like a wild-rose in the fields of heaven Washed grey with dew, awoke, and found the barque At anchor in a little land-locked bay.
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It's very hard to know what wisdom is.
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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
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I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.
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In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.
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My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.
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Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.
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The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.
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Knowledge come from looking around; wisdom comes from looking up.
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Recovery proceeding excellently. Am sure that the crushing of the Kazan Czechs and whiteguards, as well as of the kulak extortioners supporting them, will be exemplarily ruthless.
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Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.
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In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps.
