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• Our merciful Father has no pleasure in the sufferings of His children; He chastens them in love; He never inflicts a stroke He could safely spare; He inflicts it to purify as well as to punish, to caution as well as to cure, to improve as well as to chastise.

  Hannah More

  Children, Father, Suffering

  Hannah More (1811). “Practical Piety”, p.219

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• Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.

  Plato

  Teaching, Wine, Exercise

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• An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mean, Punishment, Needs

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary, ... Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.

  Alan Greenspan

  Past, Years, Two

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• The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.

  Pat Conroy

  Country, Children, Warrior

  Pat Conroy (2016). “A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life”, p.144, Nan A. Talese

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• In all fairness to the auction companies ? most companies are not car experts, they are marketers. I caution buyers to make sure that they have done their homework before they raise their hand and not after.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Hands, Car, Auctions

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• Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

  Aldo Leopold

  Exercise, Skills, Negative

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• The enemies inside us: Indifference, Indecision, Doubt, Worry, and Over-caution.

  Jim Rohn

  Worry, Doubt, Enemy

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• Don't pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand?

  Lynne Truss

  Hands, Pessimism, Hand In Hand

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• Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision.

  Louis L'Amour

  Men, Decision, Should

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.41, Bantam

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• It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch, saying that he could tell on what page of the novel Paul Scott had reached for the bottle and thrown caution to the winds.)

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, Wind, Bottles

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.314, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fasting, Restraint

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.309, Courier Corporation

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• And, to all married men, be this a caution, Which they should duly tender as their life, Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife.

  Philip Massinger

  Men, Wife, Doubt

  Philip Massinger (1761). “Dramatic Works: The renegado. The picture. The fatal dowry. The emperor of the East. The maid of honour”, p.188

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• All the 'too close to call' announcements are not due to incompetence ... It's caution.

  Chris Matthews

  Incompetence, Announcements, Dues

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• The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.

  Margaret Mead

  Cutting, Science, Giving

  Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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• Traveling across the United States, it's easy to see why Americans are often thought of as stupid. At the San Diego Zoo, right near the primate habitats, there's a display featuring half a dozen life-size gorillas made out of bronze. Posted nearby is a sign reading CAUTION: GORILLA STATUES MAY BE HOT. Everywhere you turn, the obvious is being stated. CANNON MAY BE LOUD. MOVING SIDEWALK IS ABOUT TO END. To people who don't run around suing one another, such signs suggest a crippling lack of intelligence.

  David Sedaris

  Running, Zoos, Stupid

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• Being different is ... interesting; there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.

  Edward Albee

  Reality, Differences, Interesting

  Edward Albee (2007). “Seascape: The Entire Appalling Business”, p.69, The Overlook Press

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• The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out of car windows and cooking with garlic.

  Nick Harkaway

  Other Cultures, Voice, Car

  Nick Harkaway (2014). “Tigerman: A novel”, p.17, Vintage

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• A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.

  William Hazlitt

  Animal, Safety, Enemy

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• The Inmost is one with the Inmost; yet the form of the One is not the form of the other; intimacy exacts fitness. He therefore who liveth by air, let him not be bold to breathe water. But mastery cometh by measure: to him who with labour, courage, and caution giveth his life to understand all that doth encompass him, and to prevail against it, shall be increase. "The word of Sin is Restriction": seek therefore Righteousness, enquiring into Iniquity, and fortify thyself to overcome it.

  Aleister Crowley

  Air, Water, Overcoming

  "Magick Book IV: Liber ABA". Book by Aleister Crowley. Appendix VI: A few principal rituals - Liber Reguli, 1936.

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• Although our "gentle air" cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution and refinement are everywhere. Everything has to "make a good impression" - whether or not it is any good: the impression is the main thing.

  Arnold Schoenberg

  Hate, Air, Envy

  Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.196, Univ of California Press

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• It is impossible to carry the American people along with you on a program of caution to forestall a threatening position.

  Harold L. Ickes

  People, Impossible, Threatening

  "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power". Book by Daniel Yergin, new edition, 1993.

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• One word more, a final caution: Do not forget whom to fear at the last. I have had to be content with killing and torment; but now my plans are laid, and I have begun. I shall not rest until I have eradicated hope from the Earth. Think on that, and be dismayed!

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Thinking, Finals, Earth

  Stephen R. Donaldson (2012). “Lord Foul's Bane”, p.140, Del Rey

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• Tomorrow, the market will probably continue upward driven by the dollar, but it won't go up much because of caution before the employment figures.

  Hugh S. Johnson

  Dollars, Employment, Tomorrow

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• Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.

  William Arthur Ward

  Water, Dams, Reckless

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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