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" It is impossible to love and to be wise. "
Francis Bacon
Love
To Love
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" Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center. "
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" Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. "
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" People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors. "
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" Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity. "
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" Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. "
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" He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. "
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" I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me. "
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" A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out. "
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" Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. "
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" Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. "
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" Commitment is an act, not a word. "
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" Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality. "
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" Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview. "
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" If you want to go east, don't go west. "
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" Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt. "
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" No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course. "
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" Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. "
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" He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. "
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" Make it your habit not to be critical about small things. "
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" The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom. "
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" It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt. "
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" The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. "
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" Of prosperity mortals can never have enough. "
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" It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance. "
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