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If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.

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They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is the language of the soul. Pay attention to your imagination and you will discover all you need to be fulfilled.

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What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.

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He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'

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Let's be wise as the silence, strong as the wind, useful as the light; let's make of our lips a censer of the virtues.

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Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

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Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

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I would much rather have been merry than wise.

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In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

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There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.

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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.

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Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing.

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When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

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A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.

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It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

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History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wise Quotes , Book Quotes

The wise man doesn't compete; therefore nobody can compete with him.

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