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• If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality.

  Alfred Austin

  Sweet, Nature, Men

  Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”

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• When an alluring woman comes in at the door," warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, "discretion may be found up the chimney". It is incredible that beneath this ever-timely reminder an obscure disciple should have added the words: "The wiser the sage, the more profound the folly.

  Ernest Bramah

  Doors, Should Have, Profound

  Ernest Bramah (1963). “The Celestial Omnibus”

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• It is not my strength that grows, so much as God's strength in me, which is given more abundantly as the days roll. It is so given on one condition. If my faith has laid hold of the infinite, the exhaustless, the immortal energy of God, unless there is something fearfully wrong about me, I shall be getting purer, nobler, wiser, more observant of His will; gentler, like Christ; every way fitter for His service, and for larger service, as the days increase.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Way, Energy, Infinite

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 294), 1895.

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• You have a chance to move in far better society than the Joneses. Why worry about keeping up with the Joneses? Keep up with the Angels and you'll be far wiser and happier.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Moving, Angel, Worry

  YouTube Channel "FultonJSheen"/"Fulton Sheen - Life is Worth Living "Angels" Part 3", www.youtube.com. December 14, 2007.

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• The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving present. He doesn't break the flow of life, he directs it, hastens it, but preserves its continuity.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Flow, Break

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.144, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Years, Views, London

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.63, Cooper Square Press

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• There is a haunting phantom called Regret, A shadowy creature robed somewhat like woe, But fairer in the face, whom all men know By her said mien, and eyes forever wet. No heart would seek her; but once having met All take her by the hand, and to and fro They wander through those paths of long ago-- Those hallowed ways 'twere wiser to forget.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Regret, Eye, Heart

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Regret”

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• Age doesn't mean anything. Its all in your head. Men get sexier with age. They also get wiser and get experienced.

  Arjun Rampal

  Mean, Men, Age

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• The thing to be wished for, is not that the mountains should become easier, but that men should become wiser and stronger.

  Edward Whymper

  Men, Mountain, Stronger

  Edward Whymper (1871). “Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69”, p.117

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• So wake me up when it's all over
  When I'm wiser and I'm older
  All this time I was finding myself
  And I didn't know I was lost

  Aloe Blacc

  Finding Myself, Lost, Findings

  Song: Wake Me Up, Album: Lift Your Spirit, 2013

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• And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ignorance, Fool, Poor

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1872). “Faust: A Tragedy”, p.15

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• That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Men, Knaves, Reputation

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• If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.

  Ovid

  Self Love, Understanding, Way

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• A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want, peace or war, and then to get ready for what you want; for what we prepare for is what we shall get.

  William Graham Sumner

  War, Decision, Mind

  William Graham Sumner (1963). “Social Darwinism: selected essays”, Prentice Hall

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• If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.

  Loretta Young

  Wise, Strong, Disappointment

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• There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as my picture unfolded, it emphatically suggested another direction... I always accept the risk and go for it. I'm convinced that at such times my painting is wiser than I am.

  Richard Schmid

  Risk, Mind, Painting

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• The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Retirement, War, Yield

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• To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.

  William Osler

  Ignorance, Diagnosis, Beats

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.102, ACP Press

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• Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.

  Ann Landers

  Maturity, Growing, Products

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• It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders in loyal acquiesce.

  Criss Jami

  Humble, Insecure, Order

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.41, Criss Jami

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• There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Civilization, Judging, Neighbor

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4518, e-artnow

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• Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wisdom, Believe, Errors

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.112

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• Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.

  Bill Vaughan

  People, Pocket Watches, Conversation

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• The old laws of England they Whose reverend heads with age are gray, Children of a wiser day; And whose solemn voice must be Thine own echo Liberty!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Children, Echoes, Law

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (1855). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: In Three Volumes”, p.431

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• Anybody who has had experience of poetesses knows that they may forgive a punch on the jaw, but never a suggestion that they would be wiser to give up versifying.

  Robertson Davies

  Giving Up, Forgiving, Suggestions

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