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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.
mistress compromise truth-is
Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises. Aiden Wilson Tozer
mistress her-beauty may
Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair? William Shakespeare
mistress sovereign opinion
Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.
mistress expensive
You thought I was a lovelorn mistress and I was really just an expensive prostitute. Edith Wharton
mistress masters
I will have but one mistress and no master Elizabeth I
mistress court frailty
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you. Ben Jonson
mistress language currents
Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.
mistress calm
I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself. Jane Austen
mistress would-be facts
Well, once you've been in the Canyon and once you've sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends...it's always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I've often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon. Barry Goldwater
doctrine world
Any doctrine that makes the world your friend is not your friend.
doctrine
If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx's doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I'm rightwing. Niall Ferguson
doctrines hundred plain pounds
What makes all doctrines plain and clear?/ About two hundred pounds a year. Samuel Butler
doctrine hierarchy holy meanwhile provided
Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments. Robert Rainy
doctrine way tao
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. Bodhidharma
doctrine done causes
According to the doctrine of chance, you ought to put yourself to the trouble of searching for the truth; for if you die without worshiping the True Cause, you are lost. "But," say you, "if He had wished me to worship Him, He would have left me signs of His will." He has done so; but you neglect them. Seek them, therefore; it is well worth it. Blaise Pascal
doctrine tradition absence
Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
doctrine creeds
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
doctrine hold thou
So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate.