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“Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.”

Brain Wise Youth Battle Train Temper Governors Womanhood Being Wise Meek Motherly

Book:The Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth

“The night is quiet. Like a camp before battle. The city beset by a thing unknown and will it come from forest or sea? The murengers have walled the pale, the gates are shut, but lo the thing's inside and can you guess his shape? Where he's kept or what's the counter of his face? Is he a weaver, bloody shuttle shot through a time warp, a carder of souls from the world's nap? Or a hunter with hounds or do bone horses draw his dead cart through the streets and does he call his trade to each? Dear friend he is not to be dwelt upon for it is by just such wise that he's invited in”

World Doe Soul Faces Night Cities Wise Sea Streets Battle Shapes Quiet Draws Shots Horse Trade Dear Bones Forests Gates Camps Pale Bloody Hunters Invited Naps Carts Dear Friend Hounds Warp Weavers

Book:Suttree

Source: Suttree

“Much has been said of the loneliness of wisdom, and how much the Truth seeker becomes a pilgrim wandering from star to star. To the ignorant, the wise man is lonely because he abides in distant heights of the mind. But the wise man himself does not feel lonely. Wisdom brings him nearer to life; closer to the heart of the world than the foolish man can ever be. Bookishness may lead to loneliness, and scholarship may end in a battle of beliefs, but the wise man gazing off into space sees not an emptiness, but a space full of life, truth, and law.”

“Under the Sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor wealth to the intelligent, nor success to the skillful, but time and chance govern all. For man does not know his time.”

Knows Men Doe Strong Wealth Chance Race Sun Wise Battle Intelligent Bread Skillful

Author:Solomon

“Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.”

“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.”

Inspirational Matter Enough Bigs Motivational Winning Goal Learning Wise Wise Words Battle Picks Humorous Profound Educational Priorities Insane Minor Things

Author:Jonathan Kozol

“A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.”

Thinking Men Winning Wise Risk Battle

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Will picked a single blossom from a gorse bush beside him; it shone bright yellow on his grubby hand. "People are very complicated," he said sadly. "So they are," John Rowlands said. His voice deepened a little, louder and clearer than it had been. "But when the battles between you and your adversaries are done, Will Stanton, in the end the fate of all the world will depend on just those people, and on how many of them are good or bad, stupid or wise. And indeed it is all so complicated that I would not dare foretell what they will do with their world. Our world.”

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Author:Susan Cooper

“The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.”

Men Real Opportunity Nations Loses Differences Decision Mistake Wise Serious Fool Battle Crucial Trusted Serious Mistakes

Book:Clear and Present Danger

Source: Clear and Present Danger