Wise Quotes
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Almighty Freedom! give my venturous song The force, the charm that to thy voice belong; Tis thine to shape my course, to light my way, To nerve my country with the patriot lay, To teach all men where all their interest lies, How rulers may be just and nations wise: Strong in thy strength I bend no suppliant knee, Invoke no miracle, no Muse but thee.
Joel Barlow
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That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
William Hazlitt
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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
Beverly Cleary
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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Frank Herbert
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An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.
Orson Pratt
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Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
Barney Oliver
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Is very hard to find, like, a recipe to feel good fitness-wise, tennistically, mentally.
Garbine Muguruza
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Yes, as an oppressed people, American Indians have this epic burden, but first and foremost, they're human: sometimes a mess, sometimes funny or sad, at times very wise, and other times not wise at all - a lot like me.
Alexandra Fuller
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Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
Dan Jenkins
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The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus.
Heraclitus
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When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.
Taylor Swift
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I have nothing against alсoнol, there is nothing I can do to tell people not to do it. I don't tell people not to, I just tell people to be wise about it. If you want to do it go ahead, if you don't go ahead. Nothing makes you cooler, nothing makes you lamer. You're just a normal person if you don't want to do it.
Russell Llantino
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Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in the mean, and moderation is virtue. Every abiding place outside the bounds of moderation is only exile to the wise man.
Saint Bernard
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We are all fools when one wise man appears.
Orson Scott Card
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Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
John Webster
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The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
Paulo Coelho
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I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
A. N. Wilson
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My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
Keira Knightley
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I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.
Gaby Hoffmann
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What a wise man knows seems so plain and simple to himself that he easily makes the mistake of thinking it to be so for others.
John Lancaster Spalding
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The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.
Gary Zukav
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God alone fully understands what each one of us needs; we make mistakes continually and pray for things which would be harmful to us if we received them. Afterwards we see our mistakes and realize that God is good and wise in not giving us these things, even though we plead ever so earnestly for them.
Ole Hallesby
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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
Felix Frankfurter
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Karl Kraus