Great men are not always wise
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Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
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Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.
Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
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A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
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Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend
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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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History makes people wise.
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider... Histories make men wise.
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Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him (Proverbs 26: 12).
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Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
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Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands
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He who is humble is confident and wise. He who brags is insecure and lacking.
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise
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A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years
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Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive
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Journeys end in lovers' meeting; every wise man's son doth know
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