Wise Quotes

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Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but… — A. E. Housman
Abra DeMadrigal didn't look young enough to be my sister anymore. Her sorrow weighed her down and aged her. She was still beautiful, but she… — Alice Hoffman
Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise… — Henry David Thoreau
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
No Man has a more perfect reliance on the all-wise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks his aid more… — George Washington
When I was young and bold and strong, The right was right, the wrong was wrong. With plume on high and flag unfurled, I rode… — Dorothy Parker
Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have… — Baltasar Gracian
When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart. — John Green
Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered. Where… — Harlan Ellison
Cast me into a dungeon;, burn me at the state, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives… — Robert A. Heinlein
The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's… — Stephen King
Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking about? If money… — George Burns
Mmm....she's doomed! You're doomed!! They're all doomed! Notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very… — Christopher Paolini
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly. — William Shakespeare
Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man. — Patrick Rothfuss
The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the people, when applied to laudable ends; whereupon we… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Rain was coming down in sheets. I could hear it, on the concrete outside and on the old building above me. It creaked and swayed… — Jim Butcher

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