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| QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF Wisdom |
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Quotes By subject - Starting with W - Wisdom
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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
Author: Aesop
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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I look forward to a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
Author: John F. Kennedy
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Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Author: Winston Churchill
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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Author: Aesop
Source: The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
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Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.
Author: Publilius Syrus
Source: Maxims
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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Author: Aesop
Source: The Dog and the Shadow
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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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