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• One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it. One hope too like dispair For prudence to smother, I can give not what men call love: But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And heaven rejects not: The desire of the moth for the star, The devotion of something afar From the sphere of our sorrow?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Stars, Heart, Men

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, “To”

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• The Iron Rule of prudence for an Istanbulite Woman: If you are as fragile as a tea glass, either find a way to never encounter burning water and hope to marry an ideal husband or get yourself laid and broken as soon as possible. Alternatively, stop being a tea-glass woman!

  Elif Safak

  Husband, Glasses, Iron

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• It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Opinion, Dare, Fishes

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (2003). “Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues”

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• Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Men, Roots, Majority

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.190, Princeton University Press

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• I know few significant questions of public policy which can safely be confided to computers. In the end, the hard decisions inescapably involve imponderables of intuition, prudence, and judgment.

  John F. Kennedy

  Decision, Intuition, Computer

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• Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how many victims it has claimed, for they worship a God who does not merely take the part of those victims, but who was himself one of them, murdered by the combined authority and moral prudence of the political, religious, and legal powers of human society.

  David Bentley Hart

  Christian, Religious, Political

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• We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnable, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.

  Randolph Bourne

  Quality, May, Guarding

  Randolph Silliman Bourne (1913). “Youth and Life”

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• To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Art, Money, Valor

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• Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

  Immanuel Kant

  Courage, Reproach, Conscience

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• But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire to decide ultimately between them? In cases of little importance or urgency, the prudence of both parties will keep them aloof from the questionable ground; but if it can neither be avoided nor compromised, a convention of the States must be called to ascribe the doubtful power to that department which they may think best.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Party, Thinking, Umpires

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• The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

  Edmund Burke

  Greatness, Long, Dominion

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3765, Delphi Classics

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• Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Self, Denial, Virtue

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Virtues and Vice"

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• Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Guilt, Unqualified

  Jonathan Swift (1752). “The works of D. Jonathan Swift ...: To which is prefixed, the doctor's life, with remarks on his writings, from the Earl of Orrery and others, not to be found in any former edition of his works.Dublin printed”, p.281

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• An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Pounds, Wit, Cleverness

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom". Book by Baltasar Gracián, Maxim 92, 1647.

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• Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Prudent, Youth, Periods

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.217, Courier Corporation

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• Along time ago I asked myself do I want to be right or do I want to be kind; I opted for kind.

  Jane Lynch

  Want, Be Kind, Kind

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• So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Growing Up, Expression, Brain

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.636, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Letting Go, Reality, Order

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• Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Humility, Light, Darkness

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to give a high opinion of yourself.

  Baltasar Gracian

  People, Giving, Want

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.145, Shambhala Publications

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• Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Congratulations, Risk

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “Demonology”, p.15, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.

  Immanuel Kant

  War, Approach, Conscience

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• It is by far the safer course to lay [considerations of the future] altogether aside; and to confine our attention wholly to the nature and extent of the powers as they are delineated in the constitution. Everything beyond this, must be left to the prudence and firmness of the people; who, as they will hold the scales in their own hands, it is to be hoped, will always take care to preserve the constitutional equilibrium between the General and State governments.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Hands, People

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• To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Military, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.80, Graphic Arts Books

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• The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Dark, Garden

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