"There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world."

Wisdom, Silence, Resolution, Conflict

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"There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world."

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"Honour pricks me on. Yea but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour? A word."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Self-knowledge is the greatest education."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Time is a precious gift."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Love is the river of life in the world."

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"Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart."

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"Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude."

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"The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones."

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"God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses."

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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

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"You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich."

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"It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage."

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