Wise Quotes
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For never, never, wicked man was wise.
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Living is one constant and perpetual instant when the arras-veil before what-is-to-be hangs docile and even glad to the lightest naked thrust if we had dared, were brave enough (not wise enough: no wisdom needed here) to make the rending gash.
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The wisest men are wise to the full in death.
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To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.
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Ten thousand fools, knaves, cowards, lump'd together, Become all-wise, all-righteous, and all-mighty.
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Nature Boy There was a boy A very strange enchanted boy They say he wandered very far, very far Over land and sea A little shy And sad of eye But very wise Was he And then one day A magic day he passed my way And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings This he said to me “The greatest thing You’ll ever learn Is just to love And be loved In return
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Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what’s going on
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Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.
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She didn't feel thirty. But then again again, what was being thirty supposed to feel like? When she was younger, thirty seemed so far away, she thought that a woman of that age would be so wise and knowledgeable, so settled in her life with a husband and children and a career. She had none of those things. She still felt as clueless as she had felt when she was twenty, only with a few more gray hairs and crow's feet around her eyes.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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We can hope to be fortunate—but we should strive to be wise.
