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• Be wise; let prudence dictate all your counsels; preserve peace with all men, if possible; stand by the Constitution of your country; observe its principles; and above all, show yourselves men of God, worthy citizens.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Wise, Country, Freedom

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• I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.

  Robert Browning

  Wise, Earth, Reason

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.419, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There are only 24 hours in a day. We need to quit trying to be awesome and instead be wise.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Wise, Trying, Needs

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• To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspirational, Wise, Dream

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.795, 谷月社

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• Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wise, Learning, Thinking

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.101, Shambhala Publications

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• Only you know your circumstances, your energy level, the needs of your children, and the emotional demands of your other obligations. Be wise during intensive seasons of your life. Cherish your agency, and don’t give it away casually. Don’t compare yourself to others — nearly always this will make you despondent. Don’t accept somebody else’s interpretation of how you should be spending your time. Make the best decision you can and then evaluate it to see how it works.

  Chieko N. Okazaki

  Wise, Children, Emotional

  Chieko N. Okazaki (1993). “Lighten Up!”, Deseret Book Company

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• It is important that when pursing our own self-interest we should be 'wise selfish' and not 'foolish selfish'. Being foolish selfish means pursuing our own interests in a narrow, shortsighted way. Being wise selfish means taking a broader view and recognizing that our own long-term individual interest lies in the welfare of everyone. Being wise selfish means being compassionate.

  Dalai Lama

  Wise, Selfish, Lying

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• God has forgiven you; you'd be wise to do the same

  Max Lucado

  Wise, Forgiven

  Max Lucado (2012). “In the Eye of the Storm: Jesus Knows How You Feel”, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Fate, Beer

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.32, Delphi Classics

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• Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wise, Country, Peace

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• We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms. So acknowledging foolishness is always a very important and powerful experience. The phenomenal world can be perceived and seen properly if we see it from the perspective of being a fool. There is very little distance between being a fool and being wise; they are extremely close. When we are really, truly fools, when we actually acknowledge our foolishness, then we are way ahead. We are not even in the process of becoming wise — we are already wise.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Wise, Powerful, Distance

  "The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa".

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• Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

  Saint Augustine

  Wise, Wish, Philosopher

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• Were anyone wondering how Sen. Harry Reid intended to manage life in the minority, it took one day of the 114th Congress to get the answer: Exactly as he did in the majority. Republicans would be wise to understand what he's up to.

  Kimberley Strassel

  Wise, One Day, Majority

  "Closing Down Harry Reid's Circus" by Kimberley Strassel, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 9, 2015.

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• If I ever acquire wisdom, I suppose I'll be wise enough to know what to do with it.

  Lamar Trotti

  Wise, Razors, Enough

  "Fictional character: Larry Darrell". "The Razor's Edge", www.imdb.com. 1946.

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• There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

  Sophocles

  Wise, Men, Submission To God

  Sophocles (1939). “The Antigone of Sophocles: An English Version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald”

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• I think 'one man, one vote,' just unrestricted democracy, would not be wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for the minority which the white people represent now, a minority, and they need and have a right to demand a protection of their rights.

  Pat Robertson

  Wise, Men, Thinking

  "The 700 Club". TV Series, www.imdb.com. (1966 - ).

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• Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

  Richard Lamm

  Wise, Political, Politics

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• Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy, you must be reasonable, or you must be tamed. You must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world and what things in it can really serve you. To be happy, you must be wise.

  George Santayana

  Wise, Taken, Passion

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• We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on our lives and our days long and often before the face of God and on the edge of eternity. For we are made for eternity as certainly as we are made for time, and as responsible moral beings we must deal with both.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Wise, Long, Age

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.46, Fig

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• My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love. I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wise to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness! Now I see that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the musical chords which make a perfect soul. Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wise, Sweet, Art

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• I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient when there be no redress.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Wise, Patient, Easy

  Elizabeth Montagu, Emily J. Climenson (2011). “Elizabeth Montagu, the Queen of the Bluestockings: Her Correspondence from 1720 to 1761”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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• These days people don't search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living, raise families and look after themselves, that's all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!

  Ajahn Chah

  Wise, Smart, Order

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• Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying “yes” begins things. Saying “yes” is how things grow. Saying “yes” leads to knowledge. “Yes” is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say “yes'.

  Stephen Colbert

  Wise, Hurt, Optimistic

  Knox College Commencement Address, departments.knox.edu. June 03, 2006.

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• Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wise, Wisdom, Knowledge

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• What would you be like if you had white hair and had not given up your principles? It might be wise as you deal with coalition efforts to think about the possibilities of going for fifty years.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Wise, Thinking, Hair

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