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[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose… — Karl Marx
Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. — Edward Gibbon
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. — Baltasar Gracian
The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch. — Mason Cooley
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible… — William Cowper
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt. — Maimonides
Sage is cleansing and sacred. — Pink
A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our… — James Wolcott
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. — William Wordsworth
Where is it written that houses must be beige? Any dun colored house would look better if painted pineapple, cream, ochre, or even a smart… — Frances Mayes
The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet and use their… — Mary Doria Russell
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets. — George Eliot
Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile — Homer
Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists. — Tom Robbins
In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees — Philip Roth
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. — Susan Sontag
Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages. — Steven Tyler
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One… — Henry Adams
Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty… — Scott Lynch
Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends the latter My… — Edgar Allan Poe
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not… — William Ellery Channing
Then the sun broke above the crest of the hills and the entire countryside looked soaked in blood, the arroyos deep in shadow, the cones… — James Lee Burke
Except for a couple of hours in the morning which I passed in the company of a sage I stayed in bed without food only… — Leonard Cohen

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