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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"What the essential difference between man and woman is, that they should be thus attracted to one another, no one has satisfactorily answered. Perhaps we must acknowledge the justness of the distinction which assigns to man the sphere of wisdom, and to woman that of love, though neither belongs exclusively to either. Man is continually saying to woman, Why will you not be more wise? Woman is continually saying to man, Why will you not be more loving? It is not in their wills to be wise or to be loving; but, unless each is both wise and loving, there can be neither wisdom nor love."

Differences Wise Women
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality."

Reality Wise Fear
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Herman Cain Businessman, Politician
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"It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

Wise Successful Keys
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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise."

Government Wise Sticks
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Jane Goodall Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist
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"Especially females and the younger ones like to be with somebody who is wise."

Wise Female
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Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Life is accumulative - Either our errors accumulate to what we don't get, or our wise decisions accumulate into what we do get."

Wise Decision Errors
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Joseph Warren Physician, Patriot
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"That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration"

Mean Wise Patriotic
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Hermann Hesse Novelist, Poet
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"Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise men, was the ideal of the ancients). He is nothing else than the narrow and perilous bridge between nature and spirit. His innermost destiny drives him on to the spirit and to God. His innermost longing draws him back to nature, the mother. Between the two forces his life hangs tremulous and irresolute."

Mean Mother Wise
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Homer Poet
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"She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise."

Wise Color Sensual
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Meister Eckhart Theologian, Philosopher
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"The seed of God is in us. If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would thrive all the more and grow up to God whose seed it is, and the fruit would be equal to the nature of God. Now the seed of a pear tree grows into a pear tree, a hazel seed into a hazel tree, and the seed of God into God."

Christian Wise Growing Up
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