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" Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. "

Wallace Stegner

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" Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart. "

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" I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men - it's a gift from God. "

" We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it. "

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" Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. "

" Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh. "

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" Money can be taken away from you, by the IRS or by pistol. That's why I always measure riches in terms of wisdom. No one can ever take from you what you know. "

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" I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. "

" It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. "

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" If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries. "

" When in doubt, don't. "

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" A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. "