"To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted."
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"No nation is wise enough to rule another."
"The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them."
"None is so wise, but the foole overtakes him."
"Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him. [Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.]"
"Though old and wise, yet still advise."
"One flower makes no garland."
"Sum up at night what thou hast done by day."
"Pleasing ware is half sold."
"The wind in ones face makes one wise."
"A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose."
"Fooles bite one another, but wise-men agree together."
"Hee commands enough that obeyes a wise man."
"He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment."
"If things were to be done twice, all would be wise."
"If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles. [If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.]"
"A mind that wants to wander around a corner is an un-wise mind. Now, is, be here now."
"The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]"
"The least foolish is wise."
"The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes. [The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.]"