Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise
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Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
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The commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.
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It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him
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It is a wise child that knows his own father
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We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends, and living our lives.
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My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me
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The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
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No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
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In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.
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If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
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Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been ro
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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral
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I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.
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The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
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The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest
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You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
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The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men
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A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter
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It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding that it can hold men's hearts by hopes when it cannot by satisfaction
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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