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The earth itself assures us it is a living entity. Deep below surface one can hear its slow pulse, feel its vibrant rhythm. The great… — Frank Waters
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation,… — J M Coetzee
In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God, as God is… — Swami Vivekananda
The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . .… — Zhuangzi
Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage. — Marshall McLuhan
In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
If it's advisable to never share own problems with others as sages say that majority don't care, then it's more sensible to never brag of… — Anuj
A strong, brave man is born each month, each year God gives a sage to men, A poet each ten years, perhaps, but an unselfish… — Ridgely Torrence
Long time a child, and still a child, when years Had painted manhood on my cheek, was I; For yet I lived like one not… — Hartley Coleridge
Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool. — Horace
All of us have monarchs and sages for kinsmen; nay, angels and archangels for cousins; since in antediluvian days, the sons of God did verily… — Herman Melville
People are timid and apologetic; they are no longer upright; they dare not say "I think," "I am," but quote some saint or sage. They… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were more of a… — Karen Armstrong
The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them. — Baltasar Gracian
Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage. — Tim Ward
Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.... If, like those of Rochefoucault, it be sparkling… — Thomas B. Macaulay
All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence. — Gamaliel
He who regards many things easy will find many difficulties. Therefore the sage regards things difficult, and consequently never has difficulties. — Laozi
The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest. — Emile M. Cioran
When sages commend excess, Desire is sick. — Mason Cooley
I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks. — Edward Dahlberg
One rabbi compared wise men studying the law to children tossing a ball to one another: a first sage said the meaning was this, another… — Israel Shenker
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor. — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were. — Aldous Huxley
Sages do not accumulate for themselves. The more they give to others, the more they possess of their own. The way of Heaven is to… — Laozi

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