"The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world."
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"If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And if he have compassion in his soul Toward all living beings--this noble one Doth acquire abundant Virtue."
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"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."
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"There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others."
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"It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength."
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"No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy."
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"The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me."
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"No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right."
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"A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same time it seeks to remove such obstruction, such unfairness as springs from selfish human motives."
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"Laughter is poison to fear."
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"Much indeed to be regretted, party disputes are now carried to such a length, and truth is so enveloped in mist and false representation, that it is extremely difficult to know through what channel to seek it. This difficulty to one, who is of no party, and whose sole wish is to pursue with undeviating steps a path which would lead this country to respectability, wealth, and happiness, is exceedingly to be lamented. But such, for wise purposes, it is presumed, is the turbulence of human passions in party disputes, when victory more than truth is the palm contended for."
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"The man who broods over the past can never master the difficulties of today. Every wise man learn to forget."
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"The wise man reads both books and life itself."
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"A militia law, requiring all men, or with very few exceptions besides cases of conscience, to be provided with arms and ammunition... is always a wise institution, and, in the present circumstances of our country, indispensable."
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"How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!"
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"A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself."
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"And, in addition to all the miseries, the young are not wise. They have very little understanding about life. Who wants to live every day when you don't know what's going on? When people are manipulating you, telling you to buy this perfume and you'll be beautiful, or this pair of jeans and you'll be sexy-and you believe them! It's such nonsense."
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"Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise"
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"may i be i is the only prayer--not may i be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong today... may i be me....five foot eleven, brown hair/eyed, smart, serious, happy, frustrated, impatient, joyful, running, sleeping, smiling, eating, trying, believing, listening, being & becoming."
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"A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse."
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