"Prudence keeps life safe but does not often make it happy."

Prudence, Safety, Happiness, Truth

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"Prudence keeps life safe but does not often make it happy."

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"No, sir. I make it a rule of mine: The more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"It is better to scare off a mouse than welcome a badger"

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"Money can buy you knowledge, but not the wisdom to use it wisely."

Carew Papritz, American Author

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"No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him."

Marcus Annaeus Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!"

Homer, Greek Poet

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"Get money when you don't need it, so you can use it when you need to."

J.R. Rim, American Author

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"If your prudence stops you every time from taking an action, then you are no more prudent, you are frightened."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"Often the prudent far from making their destinies succumb to them."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected."

Faith

"That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner."

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"The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity."

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"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."

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"Sir a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well: but you are surprised to find it done at all."

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"It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness."

Emotion

"A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge."

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"No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves."

Relationship

"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."

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"The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."

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