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Wise Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- And while it has not pleased the Almighty to bless us with a return of peace, we can but press on, guided by the best…
- Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.
- Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
- May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.
- I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in…
- I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
- It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be…
- I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who…
- Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong,…
More Wise Quotes
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. — Arthur Ashe
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine
- It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. — Marcus Aurelius
- To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. — Roger Babson