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• When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.

  Andre Gide

  Needs, Prudence

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• God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus said, "Parents, be like your children."

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Wise, Jesus

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• We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and liberty than their youth can handle, by indoctrinating them with sinister ideologies and false values, by permitting them, as young children, to indulge themselves in imprudence to superiors and defiance of duly constituted authority, by lack of prudent, swift punishment when the transgressed, by coddling and pampering them when they were children and protecting them from a very dangerous world.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Children, Parenting, Dangerous World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We'll therefore relish with content, Whate'er kind providence has sent, Nor aim beyond our pow'r; For, if our stock be very small, 'Tis prudent to enjoy it all, Nor lose the present hour.

  Nathaniel Cotton

  Contentment, Kind, Hours

  Nathaniel Cotton, “The Fire-Side”

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• Do not always be thinking of attack! Moves that safeguard your position are often far more prudent.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Moving, Thinking, Position

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• Mao Zedong Thought was not created by Comrade Mao alone - other revolutionaries of the older generation played a part in forming and developing it - but primarily it embodies Comrade Mao's thinking. Nevertheless, victory made him less prudent, so that in his later years some unsound features and unsound ideas, chiefly "Left" ones, began to emerge. In quite a number of instances he went counter to his own ideas, counter to the fine and correct propositions he had previously put forward, and counter to the style of work he himself had advocated.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, Neutrality, May

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.170

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• The wise man is seldom prudent.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• A prudent consideration for Number One.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Numbers, Consideration

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• A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Vices, Needs, Serious

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.90, Penguin

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• Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.

  Albert Pike

  Kindness, Office, Remember

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• There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Character, Years, Names

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.128

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• A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Character, Prudes, Credit

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• A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.

  Samuel Richardson

  Design, Appearance, Distrust

  Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances, and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.

  John C. Calhoun

  Wise, Consistency, Way

  John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 4”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha.

  Galileo Galilei

  Bible, Believe, Different

  Galileo Galilei, Raymond John Seeger (1966). “Men of physics: Galileo Galilei, his life and his works”

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• I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so ... prudent.

  Tony Blair

  Party, People, Leader

  Tony Blair's Speech to the Labour Party Conference, news.bbc.co.uk. September 28, 1999.

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• Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives.

  Elinor Glyn

  Cutting, Flying, Want

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• Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it.

  George Sand

  Hearing, Insult, Appearance

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• I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.

  Werner Herzog

  Done, Danger, Persons

  Interview with Mark Kermode, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2009.

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• Social-impact partnerships address our moral responsibilities to ensure that social programs actually improve recipients lives, and to do so in a fiscally prudent manner.

  Todd Young

  Responsibility, Impact, Addresses

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• An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home.
  [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Home, Army

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• In the past we have always assumed that the external world around us has represented reality, however confusing or uncertain, and that the inner world of our minds, its dreams, hopes, ambitions, represented the realm of fantasy, and the imagination. These roles, it seems to me, have been reversed. The most prudent and effective method of dealing with the world around us is to assume that it is a complete fiction - conversely, the one small node of reality left to us is inside of our own heads.

  J. G. Ballard

  Dream, Ambition, Past

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• It is the duty of a prudent minister of God to hold his ministry in honor and to see to it that it is respected by those who are in his charge. Moreoever, it is the duty of a faithful minister not to exceed his powers and not to abuse his office in pride, but, rather, to administer it for the benefit of his subjects.

  Martin Luther

  Pride, Office, Faithful

  Martin Luther (1961). “Lectures on Romans”, p.6, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heroism, Lasts, Heroic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.39, Xist Publishing

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