Wise Quotes
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
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may i be i is the only prayer--not may i be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong today... may i be me....five foot eleven, brown hair/eyed, smart, serious, happy, frustrated, impatient, joyful, running, sleeping, smiling, eating, trying, believing, listening, being & becoming.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
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In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.
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A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.
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How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.
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Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools.
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.
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Even a fool is wise after an event.
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But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise, or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her; fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, or come not near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good discourse, and excellent musician and her hair shall be of what colour it shall please God.
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As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.
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We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
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A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.
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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
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I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
