Whoever has inhabited the United States must have perceived that in those parts of the Union in which the Negroes are no longer slaves the have in no wise drawn nearer to the whites. On the contrary, the prejudice of race appears to be stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than those where it still exists and nowhere is it intolerant as in those states where servitude has never been known.
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Life is a festival only to the wise.
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All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.
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The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult the day he forgives himself he becomes wise.
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You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't if you are wise talk down to any audience.
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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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Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket, which is but a manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention, but the wise man saith, Put all your eggs in the one basket and watch that basket.
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To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know
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Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
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The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
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Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.
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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend A wise enemy is worth more.
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Wise are they who have learned these truths Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
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It is wise to direct your anger towards problems not people to focus your energies on answers not excuses.
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Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
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Some folks as they grow older grow wise, but most folks simply grow stubborner.
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It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.
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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
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Who is a wise man He who learns of all men.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
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I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.
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The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the Spirit of the universe, and the Spirit of the universe in the Spirit of peace.
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Nothing is more damaging to a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
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