"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."
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"Good things aren't supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first."
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"Look for the answer inside your question."
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"You don't become what you want, you become what you believe."
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"Know well what holds you back, and what moves you forward"
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"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man."
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"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience."
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"Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?"
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"The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected."
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"A wise person is full of questions. A dull person is full of answers."
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"Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances."
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"Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise depositary of the public interests. In every country these two parties exist, and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves."
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"When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal."
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"Master your words. Master your thoughts. Never allow your body to do harm. Follow these three roads with purity And you will find yourself upon the one way, The way of wisdom."
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"These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits."
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"Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action."
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"Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds."
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"None but God is wise."
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"You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, Don't feed them. If you feed them, they'll never leave."
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"The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself."
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