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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.
human-nature abstinence appetite
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
human-nature lifeless permanent
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless. Alan Watts
human-nature born unfortunate
Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press. David Hume
human-nature tendencies humans
Eell there always is a tendency in human nature to deify. Bill Maher
human-nature multitudes
What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so. Baltasar Gracian
human-nature socialism economics
German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed. Ludwig von Mises
human-nature conventions should
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. Denis Diderot
human-nature social institutions
Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it. Edward Abbey
human-nature humans human-beings
You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.
orthodox sort tall woman
When you see another tall woman on the street, you nod, sort of like Orthodox Jews. Judy Gold
orthodoxy sides may
Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other. Blaise Pascal
orthodoxy pits conservatism
Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism. Abraham Kuyper
orthodoxy prejudice world
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. Aldous Huxley
orthodox profoundly raised religious spiritual
I was raised into the Romanian Orthodox culture by my parents, and most notably my mother, who is a profoundly religious and spiritual woman. Dominique Moceanu
orthodoxy
Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence. Bertrand Russell
orthodoxy generations next
The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next. Edith Hamilton
orthodox
When you're an orthodox worrier, some days are worse than others. Erma Bombeck
orthodoxy morality action
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. Gilbert K. Chesterton