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wise words-of-wisdom godmother
This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it? Charles Dickens
wise men may
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver. Charles Caleb Colton
wise money thinking
It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.
wise light fire
If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of intellect has put out the fire of persecution, as other fires are observed to smoulder before the light of the same.
wise art moments
The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
wise heart wine
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
wise foolish gravity
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
wise men thinking
He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
wise men littles
We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.
wisdom expectations looks
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
wisdom knowledge literature
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
wisdom intelligence literature
Mystery is not profoundness.
wisdom next profit
The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.
wisdom believe errors
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.
wisdom perfection
Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts.
wisdom character
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.
wisdom ifs
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
wisdom age next
Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next. Charles Simmons
whole-life can-do happens
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point. Cesare Pavese
whole-life suburbia candidates
I'm really the candidate who has really lived his whole life in suburbia. Bob McDonnell
whole
The whole system of society tells you what to do. Barry White
whole
What we are in ourselves, and what we owe to others makes us a complete whole. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
whole corners sneak
I havent had the whole famous thing happen to me yet, and I hope I never will. I like to sneak away in the corners and hide a lot. Brenton Thwaites
whole-life whole
I've been myself my whole life. Bode Miller
whole-life whole jokes
My whole life, I've been telling jokes. Brad Garrett
whole-life words-and-music slips
if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away. Elizabeth Wurtzel
whole-life meetings has-beens
My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you... Alexander Pushkin