"The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people."
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"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."
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"If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman."
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"Knowledge talks, wisdom listens."
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"A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities."
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"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
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"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."
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"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
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"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."
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"Without culture there can be no growth; without exertion, no acquisition; without friction, no polish; without labor, no knowledge; without action, no progress; and without conflict, no victory. The man who lies down a fool at night, hoping that he will waken wise in the morning, will rise up in the morning as he laid down in the evening."
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"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."
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"It is a wise father that knows his own child."
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"Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise."
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"Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists."
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"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
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"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own."
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"We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One."
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"The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct."
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"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful."
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"The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself."
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