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Wisdom Quotes
"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men."
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"Well,' said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return once more to London, 'it has been a pretty business for me! I have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what have I gained?''Experience,' said Holmes, laughing. 'Indirectly it may be of value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your existence."
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"When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder."
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"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable."
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"There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it."
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"And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm."
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"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."
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"Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards."
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"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own."
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"The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom."
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"Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right."
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"I know the power of speech. I don't talk much."
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"He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, - 'Wait and hope.' " Your friend, Edmond Dantes, Count of Monte Cristo. The eyes of both were fixed on the spot indicated by the sailor, and on the blue-line separating the sky from the Mediterranean Sea, they perceived a large white sail."
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"I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that."
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"There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest."
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"Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason."
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"There are many secrets, don't try to resolve them all."
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"It is not wise to abandon a belief purely due to peer pressure."
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"Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold."
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"We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being."
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"Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please,With too much spirit to be e'er at ease,With too much quickness ever to be taught,With too much thinking to have common thought:You purchase pain with all that joy can give,And die of nothing but a rage to live."
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"To every problem there is already a solution whether you know it or not."
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