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Benjamin Franklin

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of wise man is in his heart.

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William Godwin

Incessant change, everlasting innovation, seem to be dictated by the true interests of mankind. But government is the perpetual enemy of change... The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is delightful to transport one’s self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last reached.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happy the man who early learns the wise chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

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Benjamin Franklin

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.

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Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and the half-wise that are dangerous.

Men | Wisdom | Wise |

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

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Cardinal James Gibbons

It is too often seen, that the wiser men about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things of the next.

Men | Wisdom | Wise | World |

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Julius Charles Hare (1795-1855) and his brother Augustus William Hare

The intellect of the wise is like glass. It admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

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Charles Montagu Halifax, 1st Earl of Halifax, Lord Halifax

Nothing would contribute more to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

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Patrick Hannay

The wise man's tongue is ever in his heart; the fool's heart's in his tongue.

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Philip G. Hamerton, fully Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Among the many advantages of experience, one of the most valuable is that we come to know the range of our own powers, and if we are wise we keep contentedly within them.

Experience | Wisdom | Wise |

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Carlo Goldoni

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

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Thomas Hobbes

Such is the nature of men that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned, yet they will hardly believe they may be many so wise as themselves.

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Fannie Hurst

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man clever enough not to.

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David Hume

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing.

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Will Herberg

Democracy is predicated not on faith in man but on the conviction... that no man is good enough or wise enough to be entrusted with irresponsible power over his fellow-men.

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