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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
~ Walter Lippmann
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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
~ Sydney J. Harris
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There is no wealth but life.
~ John Ruskin
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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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Learn wisdom from the ways of a seedling. A seedling which is never hardened off through stressful situations will never become a strong productive plant.
~ Stephen Sigmund
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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
~ Michael Pritchard
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
~ Lord Chesterfield
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
~ Sophocles
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One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The best cure for anger is delay.
~ Seneca, A.D. 63
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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
~ Thomas Jefferson
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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
~ Samuel Smiles
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Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real
strength.
~ Frances de Sales
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He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
~ Mary Wilson Little
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
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All life is an experiment.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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