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" The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. "

Robert Frost

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" What we live by we die by. "

Robert Frost

Live

Die

" To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. "

" The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason. "

" Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. "

" Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth. "

" Make it your habit not to be critical about small things. "

" We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. "

" The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. "

" You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements. "

" Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent. "

" To be social is to be forgiving. "

Robert Frost

Forgiving

Social

" In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us. "

Janet Jackson

Wisdom

Darkness

" Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns. "

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

" Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. "

" My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane. "

Robert Frost

Rain

Tree

" I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey. "

" Wisdom is found only in truth. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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. "

" Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek. "

" It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God. "

John Wycliffe

Plain

Our

" If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom. "

" In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. "

" The idea of victimage is a dreadful thing, a product of a safe middle-class perspective. What people who are not safe develop is a tragic wisdom, a wisdom that embraces contradiction and seeks a sense of balance rather than going to extremes. "

" The less you talk, the more you're listened to. "

Pauline Phillips

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" To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. "

" I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. "

" Wise men make more opportunities than they find. "

" Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive. "

" Wisdom and knowledge are the most valuable things in the body. "