Prudence Quotes
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There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't win.
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Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
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Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are nought without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end
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Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.
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Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.
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As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.
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But have you never noticed that when one has been trying to do something really good one is much nearer committing some special sin than when one keeps on in the selfish, matter-of-fact prudence of minding one's own business, and that alone?
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force.
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It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.
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There are some who wish to learn for no other reason than that they may be looked upon as learned, which is ridiculous vanity ... Others desire to learn that they may morally instruct others, that is love. And, lastly, there are some who wish to learn that they may be themselves edified; and that is prudence.
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Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.
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Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.
