Being wise Quote by Thomas Gray

“When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.”

Thomas Gray

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There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief without the help of any other argument.

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What female heart can gold despise? What cat 's averse to fish?

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Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the…

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Sweet is the breath of vernal shower,/ The bee's collected treasure sweet,/ Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet/ The still small voice of…

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Sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.

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He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.

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And weep the more, because I weep in vain.

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“Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College ”

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“The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow’r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave Awaits alike the inevitable hour: The paths…

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Men will believe anything at all provided they are under no obligation to believe it.

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E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

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How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great!

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You can never be wise unless you love reading.

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To be smart, spend carefully. To be wise, save regularly. To be genius, give extravagantly.

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Acknowledging foolishness is a very powerful and important experience. We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the…

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To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love…

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Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.

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I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.

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Were anyone wondering how Sen. Harry Reid intended to manage life in the minority, it took one day of the 114th Congress to get…

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If we are going to be wise, spiritual people prepared to meet the crises of our age, we must be a studying, learning community…

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Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our understanding of…

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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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None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as…

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The goal of a passionate artist is to try and make a masterpiece each and every time, yet be wise enough to know you…

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