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• Better to be safe than sorry.

  Samuel Lover

  Sorry, Safety, Safe

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• What you take to be hyprocrisy is sometimes a certain caution, sometimes genuine, though ponderous, childish, sometimes a mixture of both.

  Jean Rhys

  Mixtures, Sometimes, Genuine

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• Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Youth, Young, Preaching

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• If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been executed without hesitation by the ministers of open violence or of specious injustice. The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.

  Edward Gibbon

  Order, Punishment, Government

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.908, Delphi Classics

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• It must not be thought that the cowardly feeling of caution and uneasy self-preservation is innate in the English character. It is the consequence of a corpulence derived from wealth and of the training of all thoughts and passions for acquisitiveness.

  Alexander Herzen

  Passion, Character, Self

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• In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.

  Michael Crichton

  Wise, Science, Men

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• If a thought or an action does not feel right, it is a caution flag from the soul.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Positive, Law Of Attraction, Soul

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• ADAMSBERG WAS NOT A MAN WHO WENT IN FOR EMOTION: he skirted around strong feelings with caution, like swifts who only brush past windows with their wings, never going in, because they know it will be difficult to get out. He had often found dead birds in the village houses back home, imprudent visitors who had ventured inside and never again found their way back to the open air. Adamsberg considered that when it came to love, humans were no wiser than birds.

  Fred Vargas

  Love, Strong, Home

  "An Uncertain Place". Book by Fred Vargas, 2008.

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• I caution you as I was never cautioned: You will never let go, you will never be satiated. You will be damaged and scarred, you will continue to hunger. Your body will age, you will continue to need. You will want the earth, then more of the earth-- Sublime, indifferent, it is present, it will not respond. It is encompassing, it will not minister. Meaning, it will feed you, it will ravish you. It will not keep you alive.

  Louise Glück

  Letting Go, Sublime, Age

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• There's a lot of things to learn, starting with you'd better caution people just as the State Department cautioned people, especially those of Chinese descent, before they decide to engage in academic research in China.

  Jerome A. Cohen

  People, Chinese, Research

  "Spy cases turn spotlight on shadowy legal system" by Lisa Weaver, www.cnn.com. July 26, 2001.

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• Watch out for love
  (unless it is true,
  and every part of you says yes including the toes),
  it will wrap you up like a mummy,
  and your scream won't be heard
  and none of your running will run.

  Anne Sexton

  Running, Toes, Watches

  Anne Sexton, “Admonitions To A Special Person”

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• From Bard, to Bard, the frigid Caution crept,
  Till Declamation roar'd, while Passion slept.

  Samuel Johnson

  Drama, Passion, Bards

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.551

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• I stepped from Plank to Plank
  A slow and cautious way

  Emily Dickinson

  Way, Cautious

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.369, Harvard University Press

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• ... your spiritual teachers caution you against enquiry--tell you not to read certain books; not to listen to certain people; to beware of profane learning; to submit your reason, and to receive their doctrines for truths. Such advice renders them suspicious counsellors.

  Frances Wright

  Spiritual, Teacher, Book

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.45

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• The person who takes no chances generally must take whatever is left over after others have finished choosing. Overcaution is as bad, if not worse, than lack of caution. Both should be avoided. Life will always contain an element of chance. Not to win is not a sin. But not to try is a tragedy.

  Venita VanCaspel

  Winning, Risk, Tragedy

  Venita VanCaspel (1983). “The power of money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster

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• No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.

  Sappho

  Honey, Bees, Ifs

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• A man coined to superlative must expect that his every statement will be taken with some caution

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Taken, Writing, Men

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• When I became successful, I put up a caution. I didn't think it was fair to have the shadow of that kind of success thrown on my family. And I was cautious about being taken by things that could destroy you.

  Robert Redford

  Taken, Successful, Thinking

  "American dreamer". Interview with Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2004.

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• There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations.

  Lancelot Hogben

  Science, Daring, Thrive

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• I want to caution that we must not confuse patriotism with blind endorsement of bad policies.

  Mark Hatfield

  Patriotism, Want, Blind

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• Remember that introverts react not only to new people, but also to new places and events. So don’t mistake a child’s caution in new situations for an inability to relate to others. He’s recoiling from novelty or overstimulation, not from human contact. Introverts are just as likely as the next kid to seek others’ company, though often in smaller doses

  Susan Cain

  Children, Mistake, Kids

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• - Some men think because they are afraid to do. - There is a difference between fear and caution.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Thinking, Differences

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.2690, Bantam

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• Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Moving, Heart, Watches

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• She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.

  George R. R. Martin

  Real, Greed, Never Forget

  "A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five". Book by George R. R. Martin, 2011.

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• The second mouse gets the cheese!

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Witty, Iron

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