"Be innocent, wise and ninety-five."
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"Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know."
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"I would beg the wise and learned fathers [of the church] to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration."
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"what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise."
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"Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely."
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"Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace."
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"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
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"All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated."
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"While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others."
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"My word is my pride, the wisdom is weak, and that's word from the wise."
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"Willing is not enough, we must do."
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"Clevinger was a troublemaker and a wise guy. Lieutenant Scheisskopf knew that Clevinger might cause even more trouble if he wasn't watched. Yesterday it was the cadet officers; tomorrow it might be the world. Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskopf had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times. Such men were dangerous, and even the new cadet officers whom Clevinger had helped into office were eager to give damning testimony against him. The case against Clevinger was open and shut. The only thing missing was something to charge him with."
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"Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims."
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"Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control."
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"The desire to reach hearts is wise"
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"let it go -- the smashed word broken open vow or the oath cracked length wise -- let it go it was sworn to go let them go -- the truthful liars and the false fair friends and the boths and neithers -- you must let them go they were born to go let all go -- the big small middling tall bigger really the biggest and all things -- let all go dear so comes love"
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"A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth."
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"Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them."
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"Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can’t be good, be careful."
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"Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man."
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