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A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength. |
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- Marjorie Holmes
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A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful. |
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- Primo Levi
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A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle |
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- Henry David Thoreau
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. |
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- John Henry Newman
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A loving heart is the truest wisdom. |
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- Charles Dickens
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A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age. |
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- Henry David Thoreau
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. |
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- Aristophanes
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A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. |
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- Lord John Russell
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. |
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- Francis Bacon
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A sensible man knows you can't please everybody. A wise man knows you can't please anybody. |
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- Richard Needham
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