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Prudence Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
- The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended…
- Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
- Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards not…
- Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.
- Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and…
- When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
- The first years of man must make provision for the last.
- There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to…
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- It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination. — Samuel Johnson
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