"The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters."
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"It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves."
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"[...] endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand and marvel at their exceeding smoothness, were chiseled into their varies and graceful forms by the ceaseless action of countless waves. Nature is herself a great worker and never tolerates, without certain rebuke, any contradiction to her wise example. Inaction is followed by stagnation. Stagnation is followed by pestilence and pestilence is followed by death."
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"Then Christ will say to us, 'Come you also! Come you drunkards! Come you weaklings! Come you depraved!' And he will say to us, 'Vile creatures, you in the image of the beast and you who bear his mark. All the same, you come too!' And the wise and prudent will say, 'Lord, why are you welcoming them? And he will say, 'O wise and prudent, I am welcoming them because not one of them has ever judged himself worthy. And he will stretch out his arms to us, and we shall fall at his feet, and burst into sobs, and then we shall understand everything, everything! Lord, your kingdom come!"
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"Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise."
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"Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?"
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"The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens."
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"If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question."
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"If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is."
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"In solitude, where we are least alone."
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"Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric."
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"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth."
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"To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise."
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"The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone."
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"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge."
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"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians."
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"When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand."
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"Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue."
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"To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage."
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"Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently."
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