"Xenophilius Lovegood," he said, extending a hand to Harry. "My daughter and I live over the hill, so kind of the Weasleys to invite us. I think you know my Luna?" he added to Ron."Yes" said Ron. "Isn't she with you?""She lingered in that charming little garden to say hello to the gnomes, such a glorious infestation! How few wizards realize just how much we can learn from the wise little gnomes - or, to give then their correct names, the Gernumbli gardensi.""Ours do know a lot of excellent swear words," said Ron, "but I think Fred and George taught them those."
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"What you fear most of all is - fear. Very wise."
"My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet."
"For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions."
"Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice."
"heaven is eternal, earth everlasting. they endure this way because they do not live for themselves. in the same way, the wise person puts himself last, and thereby finds himself first, holds himself outside, and thereby remains at the center, abandons himself, and is thereby fulfilled."
"The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling."
"The wise man does not lay up treasure. The more he expends on others, the more he gains for himself. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own."
"For even the very wise cannot see all ends."
"The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?""
"We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful."
"Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows."
"I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide."
"Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence."
"I call wise man who, while he is innocent , endures insults and blows with a patience equal to its strength."
"Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves."
"Nature herself makes the wise man rich."
"He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks."
"Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty."
"One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."