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A wise girl kisses but doesn't fall in love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves even before she's disappointed.
Author:
Norma Jeane - Marilyn Monroe
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Kindness is the gentle thread that weaves unnoticed scenes of joy into the fabric of our daily journey--every choice sparks whispers of hope in just being ourselves.
Author:
Janelle Carter
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You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
Author:
Marquis Vauvenargues
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Author:
Mark Twain
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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety."
Author:
Francis Quarles
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But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.
Author:
Robert Peel
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Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
Author:
Robert Owen
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We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.
Author:
Origen
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Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.
Author:
Marvin Olasky
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One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God.
Author:
Catherine McAuley
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Where passion leads or prudence points the way.
Author:
Robert Lowth
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We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.
Author:
Robert Lee
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Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
Author:
Johann Lavater
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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.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
Author:
Molly Ivins
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
Author:
Thomas Hobbes
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No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
Author:
Knut Hamsun
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In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
Author:
Robert Hall
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Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
Author:
William Gladstone
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
Author:
Henry Fielding
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It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
Author:
John Dryden
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Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
Author:
Democritus
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Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
Author:
Charles Cooley
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
Author:
Charles Colton
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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.
Author:
James Brady
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If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Author:
Omar Bradley
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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
Author:
William Blake
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Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
Author:
Aesop
