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Crying with the wise is better than laughing with the fool.

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Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

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For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

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A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

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The general tendency towards an eight-hour working day has undoubtedly been healthful, and it is wise for the State to set a good example as an employer of labor, both as to the number of hours of labor exacted and as to paying a just and reasonable wage.

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Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is bent on expression. The tell-tale body is all tongues. Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces which expose the whole movement.

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

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The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.

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Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail.

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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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Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.

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In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons.

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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

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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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The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not know how to adapt himself. The intellectual who tries to escape from neurosis by escaping from the facts is merely acting on the principle that “where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.

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We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

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Everyone can recognize history when it happens. Everyone can recognize history after is has happened; but only the wise man knows at the moment what is vital and permanent, what is lasting and memorable.

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