An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight.. The truly wise person is color blind.
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None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
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Children are the keys of Paradise. They alone are good and wise, Because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer
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O wretched state of Kings! O doleful fate! Greatness misnamed, in misery only great! Could men but know the endless woe it brings, The wise would die before they would be Kings. Think what a King must do!
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Order is heav'n's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
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Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self sacrifice.
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Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.
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The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.
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It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses How chastening in the hour of pride How consoling in the depths of affliction
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No man ever became wise by chance.
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
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Adversity makes men wise but not rich.
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Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
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The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.
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See first that the design is wise and just that ascertained, pursue it resolutely do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.
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Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
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Nor love, nor honor, wealth, nor power, Can give the heart a cheerful hour When health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.
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Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
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The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
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The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.
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Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosiac, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill.
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Ninetenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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If a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove.
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