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Norman Douglas

"What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?"

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"What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?"

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A.E. Samaan

"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."

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A.E. Samaan

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

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"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."

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"Self-knowledge is the greatest education."

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

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"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."

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

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

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"Knowledge is your treasure. How well you spend and invest it will define your wisdom."

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"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising."
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"The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship."
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"Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes."
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"Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague."
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"The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day."
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"They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves."
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"A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner."
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"The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying."
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"It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest."
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"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."
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