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| QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF Wisdom |
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Quotes By subject - Starting with W - Wisdom
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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]
Author: Horace
Source: Odes
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A Native American Elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, 'the one I feed the most.'
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: Life of Boerhaave
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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.
Author: Bertrand Russell
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