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“Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great.”

Needs Moments Wisdom Wise Source Draws Calm Stores Clever Reservoirs

Book:Friends and Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905-1914

Source: Friends and Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905-1914

“The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.”

Moments Waiting Wise

Book:The Shattered Sea Series 3-Book Bundle: Half a King, Half the World, Half a War

Source: The Shattered Sea Series 3-Book Bundle: Half a King, Half the World, Half a War

“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.”

Has Beens Art Enough Moments Values Wise Foolish Speakers Publish Eloquence Sinking Declamation

Book:Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.

Source: Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.

“Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.”

Men Moments Wise Loyal Amazed Being Wise Furious Temperance Neutrality Lady Macbeth Macbeth Conflict

Book:The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

“The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.”

Moments Individual Given Wise Species Foolish Multitudes Deliberation

Book:Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

Source: Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

“When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at all, or only the shortest of speculative conjectures. Length, of course, need not correspond with importance. Garrulous old Polonius , in a rare moment of clarity, reminded us that "brevity is the soul of wit" (and then immediately vitiated his wise observation with a flood of woolly words about Hamlet 's Madness.”

“Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness; none can be happy with a small portion of content.”

Mind Wells May Moments Causes Doubt Wise Satisfied Contentment Portions Not Happy Unwise Inverse

Book:The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].

Source: The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].

“There are few who would need advisers, if they were only accustomed to appeal to themselves in their calmest, holiest moments. If, when embarrassed with doubt as to any course of action, they would turn aside from the immediate tumult of the world, and from the vain speaking of those who "darken counsel by words without knowledge;" and would then commune with their hearts alone, at night, the heavens their silent counsellors, they would act not always in accordance with the wise men of this world, but with that wisdom which bringeth peace.”

Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

“Of what's to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing's troubled: the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them, and they listen reverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing whatsoever.”

People Sometimes Moments Happens Sound Study Wise Streets Hearing Intense Perceive

Author:C.P. Cavafy

“A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign power, Like other baubles in the Tower: Is generous, valiant, just, and wise, And so continues till he dies.”

Moments Dies Sound Virtue Wise Generous Crowns Towers Sovereign Royalty Valiant Emblems

Author:Jonathan Swift

“The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it; so is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts--or, in other words, because the one is always wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it.”

Knows Men Long Doe Ideas Moments Time Passion Wish Enjoy Hours Wise Fool Amusing

Book:The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

Source: The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

“The profound nature of our existence is that we are able at any moment to connect to anyone, anywhere. History is there to remind us of how far weve come, and every day our journey is to continue with that progress of becoming more wise, more compassionate and more considerate human beings. Remembering Emmett though song is way to remind people that there is no need to continue with senseless crimes. Race and racism do no go hand in hand. We are only one race: human.”

People Moments Remember Song Existence Wise Progress Journey Crime Racism Profound Compassionate Considerate

Author:Melody Gardot