"Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar."

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"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things."

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"I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more."

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"The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this."

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"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come."

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"Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity."

Life, Nature, Infinity, Suffering

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."

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"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future."

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"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value."

Louis L'Amour, American Author

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"We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough."

Fran Lebowitz, American Journalist

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"To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

Wisdom, Equality, Being, Living, Race

"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."

George Washington, American President

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"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

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"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

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"Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

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"I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things."

"I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more."

"The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this."

"What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars."

"Not without hope we suffer and we mourn."

"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."

"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come."

"Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity."

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."

"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future."

Exlpore more Wisdom quotes

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

"Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value."

"We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country."

"When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough."

"To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow."

"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."

"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."

"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on."

"Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed."

"I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place."