“Before you can be eccentric, you must know where the circle is.”
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Wise Quotes — page 182 of 916
“A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.”
“Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.”
“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
“What is moral is what you feel good after.”
“The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.”
“When a man says he doesn't understand a woman it's because he won't take the trouble.”
“An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.”
“I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature”
“All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.”
“I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the city is the garden. And the favela is the back yard where they throw the garbage.”
“Little things affect little minds.”
“Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.”
“Knowledge is only one ingredient on arriving at a stock's proper price. The other ingredient, fully as important as information, is sound judgment.”
“Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."”
“There is no little enemy”
“Observe all men, thyself most.”
“In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.”
“Major writing is to say that which has been seen, so that it need never be said again; so that which has been seen increases, changes in reality, in being.”
“Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.”