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• We have to be the people who stand up and say look, vigilance is good and prudence is good. But a kind of irrational fear that leads itself to demagogic rhetoric is something that we have to say no - no, we're not going to go there.

  Russell D. Moore

  People, Looks, Irrational Fear

  "Round-Table On Refugees: How People Of Faith Are Navigating The Crisis". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 21, 2015.

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• Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to take the prudence of the winter time for a fat wisdom of, midsummer days. Manhood is bent to the passing cares of the passing moment, and holds so closely to his eyes the sheet of, "to-day," that it screens the "to-morrow" from his sight.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Eye, Winter, Past

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• Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God; for, as a poet hath said, his laws govern all.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Law, Simplicity

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• Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Crime

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• To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!

  Michel de Montaigne

  Credit, Cold, Gravity

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• There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

  Samuel Johnson

  Distance, May, Too Much

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.119, Univ of California Press

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• Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful; make prudence a habit, and reckless profligacy will be as contrary to the nature of the child, grown or adult, as the most atrocious crimes, are to any of us.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Children, Sobriety, Adults

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• I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.

  George Washington

  Believe, Choices, Political

  George Washington (1838). “Monuments of Washington's patriotism: containing a fac simile of his publick accounts kept during the revolutionary war; and some of the documents connected with his military command and civil administration; together with an eulogium on the character of Washington, by W. Jackson”, p.13

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• If any man should conceive certain things as being really good, such as prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, he would not after having first conceived these endure to listen to anything which should not be in harmony with what is really good.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Justice, Being Real

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.25, Lulu.com

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• 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, Coward, Helping

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.206, Penguin

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• It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Quality, Overcoming, Dexterity

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

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• While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Issues, Bravery

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• In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

  Blaise Pascal

  Past, Decision, Looks

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.168, Cosimo, Inc.

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• She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

  Jane Austen

  Romance, Youth, Natural

  'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 4

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• In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity: "Compare then the blessings enjoyed by Spaniards of prudence, genius, magnanimity, temperance, humanity, and religion with those of the little men [the Indians] in whom you will scarcely find even vestiges of humanity. . . . How can we doubt that these people - so uncivilized, so barbaric, contaminated with so many impieties and obscenities - have been justly conquered?"

  Juan Gines de Sepulveda

  Blessing, Men, People

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• Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow.

  Sophocles

  Conceited, Judging, Speak

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• At a great pennyworth pause a while.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Pauses

  Benjamin Franklin (1824). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral and Literary, with His Life, Written by Himself”, p.247

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• Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.

  Edmund Burke

  Years, Evil, Half

  Edmund Burke, Christian ENGLISH (pseud.) (1861). “Liberation tested by Philosophy and Experience. In “Reflections on the French Revolution,” etc. [The dedication signed: Christian English.]”, p.14

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• Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure.

  Hosea Ballou

  People, World, Affliction

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• Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.

  William Hurrell Mallock

  Struggle, Political, Politics

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• I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.

  Joseph Joubert

  Littles, Moral, Ifs

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• The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reasoning and analysis, but first of all by living. For until we have begun to live our prudence has no material to work on. And until we have begun to fail we have no way of working out our success.

  Thomas Merton

  Life, Work Out, Analysis

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• Sharp increases in the minimum wage rate are also inflationary. Frequently workers paid more than the minimum gauge their wages relative to it. This is especially true of those workers who are paid by the hour. An increase in the minimum therefore increases their demands for higher wages in order to maintain their place in the structure of wages. And when the increase is as sharp as it is in H.R. 7935, the result is sure to be a fresh surge of inflation.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Impact, Order, Gauges

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973".

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• I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine quotations, by whomsoever alleged.

  Pierre Bayle

  Deceiving, Citations, Quotations

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• Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.

  Andre Maurois

  Glasses, Sincerity, Diamond

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