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Source: The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)

“O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.”

Wells Might Eye Wise Tree Reader Atheist Contemplating Hollies Sophistry

Author:Robert Southey

“What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.”

Thinking Should Children Persons Reading Understanding Wise Wise Person Blockheads

Book:The Doctor, &c

Source: The Doctor, &c

“Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.”

Giving Wise Deny Providence

Book:The Major Works

Source: The Major Works

“Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.”

Men Wealth Wise Materials Fool Amount Satisfaction Material Wealth

Book:The Choice: A Surprising New Message of Hope

Source: The Choice: A Surprising New Message of Hope

“You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hayseeds are bailed hayseeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?”

People Thinking World Sides Chance Wise New York Ocean Towns Seeds Jersey New Jersey Hay

Author:O. Henry

“It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.”

Men Justice Wise Standards Fairs Tests

Author:Odell Shepard

“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

“Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.”

Has Beens Laughing Wise Wine Silent Folly

Author:Homer

“The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.”

Men Wise Keys Fool Tongue

Author:Socrates

“O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.”

Long Past Simple Wise Fate Deeds Manners Sublime Wanderers

Author:Mortimer Collins

“The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.”

Wise Ignorance Fool Truth Is Errors

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by; They are good, they are bad; they are weak, they are strong, Wise, foolish,--so am I; Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat, Or hurl the cynic's ban? Let me live in my house by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.”

Men Should House Strong Sides Race Wise Weak Let Me Foolish Seats Should I Hospitality Bans Cynic

Author:Sam Walter Foss

“The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.”

Men Way Needs Action Greater Wise He Man Glory Ease Virtuous

Book:Plutarch's Lives

Source: Plutarch's Lives

“Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.”

May Book House Wise Angel Fairs Garden Possession Graves Delightful Guardian Mistress Guardian Angel Few Friends Loving Me

Author:Abraham Cowley

“One day you will wake up and there wont be any more time to do the things youve always wanted. Do it now. The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”

Wanted Simple Wise One Day Wake Up Extraordinary More Time Simple Things Extraordinary Things

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.”

Men May Wisdom Earth Wise Judging Kings

Author:Solomon Ibn Gabirol

“Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off.”

Men Lasts Desire Wise Fame Weakness

Book:The Plays

Source: The Plays

“There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds.”

Mind Wise Mortals Restless Repose

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing”

Men May Done Whole Age Action Wise Gains Harder Ill Whole Life Foolish Applause Censure

Author:David Hume

“It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it is wise to look beyond the problem to the possibilities that are in it. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, "He's so big, we can never kill him." But David looked at the same giant and thought, "He's so big, I can't miss him.”

Looks I Can Important Problem Bigs Wise Missing Possibility Perspective Soldier Giants Each Day Live Each Day Goliath Positive Perspective

Author:Dale E. Turner

“Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.”

Men Wisdom Wise Fool Dependent

Author:Cato the Younger

“True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances, and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.”

Way Wise Circumstances Conformity Consistency Prudent

Book:The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 4

Source: The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 4

“The man who broods over the past can never master the difficulties of today. Every wise man learn to forget.”

Men Today Past Forget Wise He Man Masters Difficulty Over The Past Forget The Past Very Wise

Author:Herbert Newton Casson

“My father was extremely loving to me and funny and wise and understanding, and at other times extremely demanding, critical, calculating, exacting. When you're a young woman, I think you want to please a lot, so maybe you accept more of the criticism than you would as an older person. But criticism can be very wounding. It certainly was to me.”

Thinking Want Persons Young Father Understanding Accepting Wise Please Criticism Critical Young Women Calculating

Author:Anjelica Huston

“The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.”

Mind Wells Body Wise Tongue Controlled

Book:The Dhammapada

Source: The Dhammapada

“He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is called respectable.”

Taken Wise Roots Hatred Destroyed Respectable

Book:The Dhammapada

Source: The Dhammapada

“A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.”

Ifs Opinion Wise Politician Expected Rapture Grudge

Author:Frederick Scott Oliver

“If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.”

Ifs Way Has Beens Stories Use Strong Grows Wise Overcoming Stronger Disappointment Wiser Exam Makes You Stronger Success Stories Greatest Success Semester

Author:Loretta Young

“When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a wise decision, but of political pressure groups coming to the state textbook hearings, this is wrong.”

“A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared; an act of charity which he has performed; domestic conflicts; private affairs with his wife; poorly prepared food he may have been offered; or slang he may have heard.”

Men Should Wells May Has Beens Wise Wife Heard Conflict Medicine Prepared Charity Affair Formulas Slang Acts Of Charity Divulge

Author:Chanakya

“The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society.”

Able Artist Successful Wise Strange Tasks Ducks Solitary Venture Eccentric Confinement Solitary Confinement

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“Hurray for criticism, if it means that an artist's voice is heard. Let the wise artist invite criticism and survive it when it comes.”

Ifs Mean Artist Voice Wise Heard Criticism Invites

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated.”

Facts Artist Peace Wise Making Peace

Author:Eric Maisel

“Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working.”

Might Artist Forget Wise Talent Being Wise Loaded

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom.”

Men Powerful Knowledge Wise Weakness Powerful Man

Author:Mark B. Cohen

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