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" Never find fault with the absent. "
Alexander Pope
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" Of prosperity mortals can never have enough. "
Aeschylus
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" Contrary to conventional wisdom, the blue blazer's a bit of a loose cannon. A suit decided long ago what it wanted to be, and it doesn't want to hear your ideas, but a blue blazer only got around to half the job. So it leaves it up to you to find its bottoms. Gray slacks, blue jeans, patterns, white pants and different blue shades all work. "
Willie Geist
Work
Long
Job
" Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind. "
Alexander Pope
Find
Kind
Kindness
" Who is wise in love, love most, say least. "
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Say
Wise
Wisdom
" Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. "
Walter Benjamin
Real
Real Life
Life
" Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. "
Anatole France
Wisdom
Irony
Joy
" This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. "
Thomas Dekker
School
Fool
Age
" Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek. "
Dan Rather
Alligator
You
Creek
" A short saying often contains much wisdom. "
Sophocles
Often
Wisdom
Short
" What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. "
Ellen Glasgow
Important
React
Wisdom
" The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. "
Khalil Gibran
Wise
Teacher
Mind
" I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so. "
Timothy White
Wisdom
You
Think
" An honest man's the noblest work of God. "
Alexander Pope
Honest
Noblest
God
" It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Folly
Great
Wise
" And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade. "
Alexander Pope
Truth
After
Lie
" Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has. "
Josh Billings
Made
Never
Wisdom
" The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. "
Dean Inge
Common Sense
Wise
Wisdom
" Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example. "
Alexander Pope
Men
Fools
Think
" Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. "
Alexander Pope
Wise
Been
Capable
" A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself. "
Loretta Young
She
Follow
Charming
" The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom. "
John Burnside
Forest
Woods
Mystery
" The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. "
Michelangelo
Aim
Achieving
Wisdom
" Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. "
Theodore Roosevelt
Being
Nine-Tenths
Time
" Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. "
Rabindranath Tagore
Create
Everything
Us
" Start wide, expand further, and never look back. "
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Never
Start
Wisdom
" If you want to go east, don't go west. "
Ramakrishna
West
East
Go
" Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older. "
Kris Kristofferson
You
Never Give Up
Power
" Influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They're the ones who constantly ask, 'What if?' and 'Why not?' They're not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, and they don't disrupt things for the sake of being disruptive; they do it to make things better. "
Travis Bradberry
Better
Wisdom
People
" Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. "
Archimedes
Long
Enough
Me
" Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. "
Doug Larson
Talk
You
Wisdom