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“To be wise doesn't always mean to have a wrinkled face and sparkly eyes. To be wise means to be still inside.”

Mean Stills Wisdom Eye Faces Wise Buddhism Being Wise

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.”

People Life Stills Wisdom Law Wise Wise People

Author:Aristophanes

“Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.”

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Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.”

Stills Soul Hard Wisdom Courses Causes Wise Pride Holy Everyday Tolerance Eras Remarkable Cash Currency Smooth Everyday Life Civility

Book:Before the Sabbath

Source: Before the Sabbath

“I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good to be holding the helm; no matter how strong my hands, the sudden and numerous waves were stronger still, and I was wise enough to yield to them rather than resist them obstinately and make the ship founder. Thus I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of godlike power are in us still; Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will!”

Ifs Stills Soul Beautiful Strong Wise Hero Saint Seeds Godlike Bards

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

“If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though without his serpentine syntax. It's a delicious treat, studded with wise and beautifully observed detail, that places side by side those perpetually fascinating antagonists, the eager, casual American and the meticulous, pleasure-driven French. Christine Sneed knows everyone's intimate secrets and her book is lively, amusing, and, ultimately, kind to pretty much all of them.”

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Author:Rosellen Brown

“Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.”

Ifs Stills Character Wise Judging Kings Saint Ministers Bishops Lawns

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward

“They say that the Dead die not, but remain Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth. I think they ride the calm mid-heaven, as these, In wise majestic melancholy train, And watch the moon, and the still-raging seas, And men, coming and going on the earth.”

Thinking Men Stills Earth Dies Heaven Grief Watches Rich Wise Sea Moon Train Calm Rage Melancholy Heirs Mirth Majestic

Book:1914 & Other Poems

Source: 1914 & Other Poems

“O lovely chance, what can I doTo give my gratefulness to you?You rise between myself and meWith a wise persistency;I would have broken body and soul,But by your grace, still I am whole.”

Giving Stills Soul Whole Body Chance Grace Wise Broken Lovely Gratefulness

Author:Sara Teasdale

“Changi for me - of course it's easy to be wise after the event, and to discuss it cleverly after the event - was about as near as you can get to being dead and still be alive.”

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Author:James Clavell