Prudence Quotes - Page 13

• Feelings can be controlled and behavior can be controlled. The line of sin is between the feelings and the behavior. The line of prudence is between the susceptibility and the feelings.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Feelings, Lines, Sin

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• I think what was special about 'Music by Prudence' was the classic story of the title subject's life path - from being an outcast in her society because she was disabled, to someone who picked herself from that despair and elevated herself within that community, and now that society accepting her as much as they formerly rejected her. People identified with that journey, overcoming an obstacle, but still triumphing.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Journey, Thinking, People

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• People, the common people, can genuinely see what I'm doing. Moreover, people know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence. These are the four principles I adopted at the very beginning and continue to use until now. People see this and give me donations.

  Abdul Sattar Edhi

  Hard Work, Simple, People

  Source: www.irinnews.org

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• It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Dexterity, Obstacles, Accomplished

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence.

  Abdul Sattar Edhi

  Hard Work, Simple, People

  Source: www.irinnews.org

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• To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

  William Hazlitt

  Thinking, Order, Way

  William Hazlitt (1913). “Selections from William Hazlitt”, Boston, New York etc. Ginn [c1913]

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• You must labour to acquire that great and uncommon talent of hating with good breeding, and loving with prudence; to make no quarrel irreconcilable by silly and unnecessary indications of anger; and no friendship dangerous, in care it breaks, by a wanton, indiscreet, and unreserved confidence.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Love, Hate, Silly

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• I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.

  Aldo Leopold

  Adventure, Self, Serious Things

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• Truth, but not the whole truth, must be the invariable principle of every man who hath either religion, honour, or prudence. Thosewho violate it, may be cunning, but they are not able. Lies and perfidy are the refuge of fools and cowards.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Truth, Lying, Men

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.298, OUP Oxford

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• Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Acceptance, Duty

  "Fictional character: Marianne". "Sense and Sensibility", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessedno other faculties than the palate, the nose, the touch, the eye and ear; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three, which never subscribes, which never gives, which seldom lends, and asks but one question of any project,--Will it bake bread?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Giving, Three

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Cheating, Practice, Fool

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• What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.

  T. S. Eliot

  Heart, Blood, Age

  The Waste Land l. 404 (1922)

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• What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

  Adam Smith

  Invisible Hand, Kingdoms, Economic

  1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, bk.4, ch.2.

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• Asleep by the Smiths Vapour Trail by Ride Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum Dear Prudence by the Beatles Gypsy by Suzanne Vega Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues Daydream by Smashing Pumpkins Dusk by Genesis (before Phil Collins was even in the band!) MLK by U2 Blackbird by the Beatles Landslide by Fleetwood Mac Asleep by the Smiths (again!) -Charlie's mixtape

  Stephen Chbosky

  Night, Vegas, White

  Stephen Chbosky (2012). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ; and what's more, you've regarded your cowardice as prudence, and found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that, in fact, I may be even more "alive" than you are. Do take a closer look!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Comfort, Looks, Alive

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• You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Long, Grace, Coward

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.125, A&C Black

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• All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Mistake, Ambition, Greatness

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, chapter III: Of Mixed Princedoms, 1513.

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• Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Names, Common Sense

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.73, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I was in the top ten percent of my law school class. I am a Doctor of Juris Prudence. I have an honorary Doctor of Laws. So, would somebody please tell me why I spent four mortal hours today conversing with a person named Dizzy Dean.

  Branch Rickey

  School, Doctors, Law

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided than a common archer?

  George Chapman

  Archer, Men, Two

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.150

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• So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance.

  Richard Hooker

  Men, Two, Titles

  Richard Hooker (1830). “The Ecclesiastical Polity and Other Works of Richard Hooker”, p.416

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• When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.

  Paul Krugman

  Vices, Usual, Virtue

  "Depression Economics Returns" by Paul Krugman, www.nytimes.com. November 14, 2008.

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• In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.

  William Hazlitt

  Vanity, Arrogant, Dull

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.135

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• The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Shunning, Overcoming, Virtuous Woman

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