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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.
examination worthless
A happiness that won't stand up to examination is less than worthless. Drea De Matteo
examination dignity instinct
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them. C. S. Lewis
examination doe originality
Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought. Edward Carpenter
examination fiction freak
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself. Flannery O'Connor
examination individual life-altering
In a sense, Out of Oz is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them. Gregory Maguire
examination ability
Ability is not always gauged by examination. Indira Gandhi
examination fraud dread
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it. Samuel Johnson
examination experiments died
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of. Ronald Fisher
expediency parallel principles pursue sticking time
And we pursue all of these in parallel while at the same time sticking to our principles and not sacrificing expediency for principle. Adam Ereli