Being wise Quote by George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

“Being wise doth either make men our friends or discourage them from being our enemies.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

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If politicians would think more they would act less.

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The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.

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To the question, What shall we do to be saved in this World? there is no other answer but this, Look to your Moat.

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The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy…

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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

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