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Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

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One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

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Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.

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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

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I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

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This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

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It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another.

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The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.

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What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.

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The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

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the shell must break before the bird can fly.

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For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

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As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.

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Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been

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A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

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The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

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Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

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True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

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