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" Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done. "

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" The wisdom of God is so great that He also knows exactly what I would think and do under every possible circumstance and situation, and he placed me in that state of life and situation best suited for my salvation. "

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" The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. "

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" Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly. "

" The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. "

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" It is good even for old men to learn wisdom. "

" Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. "

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" The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. "

" After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem. "

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" Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. "

" Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. "

" Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. "

" It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head. "

" To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained. "

" Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected. "

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" To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom. "

" Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes. "

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" Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. "

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" Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow! "

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" After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead. "

" Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. "

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" Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. "

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