"Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart."
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"The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid."
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"A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts."
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"When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me."
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"Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established"
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"What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end."
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"Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth."
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"Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind."
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"Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die."
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"The reactionary suicide is ‘wise,’ and the revolutionary suicide is a ‘fool,’ a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant when he spoke of being a ‘fool for Christ,’ That foolishness can move mountains of oppression; it is our great leap and our commitment to the dead and the unborn."
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"Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done."
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"A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart."
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"Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins."
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"A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out."
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"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."
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"Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good."
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"What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?"
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"God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind."
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"A man must become wise at his own expense."
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"He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed."
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