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" Quotes and Sayings About wise

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

Wise parent Desire Friend Advisor
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Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
Giant Hip Jungle Primitive
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It is important that we relish the food we eat. If we cannot do this, but eat mechanically, our food does not do us that good it should, and we fail to be nourished and built up by it as we otherwise would be, if we could enjoy the food we take into the stomach.

Important Food Relish Mechanically
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Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Counselor Time Wisest
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All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it.

Accept Accepted Aim Burden
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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

All Things Blind Blind Man Colors
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…It’s okay to want to make a difference. It’s not cheesy, don’t let them tell you otherwise.
Okay Difference Cheesy
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He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

Cannot Found He His
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Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

Alone Being BeingAlone Created
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Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Art Beauty Become Just
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Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

Expression Find Grace Life
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

No words Wisdom Understands
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Grow wiser Learn Fault Instrument
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I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'

Buy Down Found Funds
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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Be quick Learn
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I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy.

Buy Down Found Funds
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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Handsome Strong Rich Never
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If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.

Detail Discover Examining Level
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So benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards, right?

Afterwards Benevolent Dictators Efficient
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I'm very serious about what I do. I practice every day for three hours. I work on my scales; I work on my tone. But otherwise, I like to have fun.

About Day Every Every Day
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It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.

Artist Wise Mind Indecent body
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Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

Beauty Idiots Wise men
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Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Windows Chandeliers Illuminates Enveloping darkness
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Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.

Work Business Universe Eyes
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You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.

Appreciate Get Got Just
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It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

Better Fool Had Handle
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Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.
Man Wise In quest More wisdom
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As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Cannot Down Him Hold
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That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

Careless Could Each Fine
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Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

Say Sure Those Wisest
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.

Man Condemn His enemy Wiser
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There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

Never Country Every moment Virtuous
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Power is not what we do but what we do not – hasty and unwise actions that we repeat every day and which ultimately bring us into trouble.

Hasty Power Actions Unwise
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I don't think we should judge celebrities for doing charity work. Period. Whatever their reasons for doing it, they are shedding light on issues that would otherwise go unnoticed.

Celebrities Charity Charity Work Doing
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There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Achieve After Aim Enjoy
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I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.
Act Because Bucket Cleaned
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A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.

Cherished Little Nonsense Wisest
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

Wise man Remember Past Future
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Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.

Close Everything Hand Like
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Your fans, they count on you to make wise decisions and wise choices. That's why they're your fan base. If you continually let them down, they're going to go find someone else to be fans of.

Base Choices Continually Count
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Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
Greatest May Our Very
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It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

Contact Easy Give Give And Take
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No road is long with good company. No ambition is too big with the requisite support. Associate yourself with wise people of good quality.

No road Good company No ambition Too big
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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Authors Because Cats Creatures
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Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

Attacked Dog Every Fewer
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I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.

Atlantic Atlantic Ocean Caribbean Come
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You must have goals in your life, or otherwise be prepared to be used by those who do have them.

Must have Goals Life Used
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There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

Some persons World Better proof Wise
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That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw

Man Best Truth Good
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

Most hateful Human misfortune Wise man Influence
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