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• If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Military, Technology, Advancement

  "Collected Writings, Volume 1" by Omar N. Bradley, 1967.

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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.

  Robert Peel

  Courage, Men, Waste

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• Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Mean, Men, Should Have

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• The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Marriage, Heart

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• Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

  Francis Quarles

  Fear, Heart, Literature

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• Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Failure, Opportunity, Use It Or Lose It

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• I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

  Molly Ivins

  Women, Believe, Years

  "A Burr Under Apathy's Saddle" by Clarence Page, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 5, 2007.

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• Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Equal, Caution

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Where passion leads or prudence points the way.

  Robert Lowth

  Passion, Way

  Robert Lowth, Rev. Peter HALL (1834). “Sermons, and other remains, ... now first collected and arranged, ... with an introductory memoir by ... P. Hall, etc. (P. Barton's sermon at the consecration of Bishop Lowth.).”, p.477

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• Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.

  Henry Fielding

  Two, Golden, Bows

  Henry Fielding (1824). “Works: With a Life of the Author”, p.82

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• He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Feet, Doe

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• All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

  Tacitus

  Vigor, May, Firsts

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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.

  Robert Dale Owen

  Courage, Adventure, Aquariums

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• Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

  Seneca the Younger

  Science, Giving, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

  Knut Hamsun

  Fate, Men, Becoming

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• Dine on little, and sup on less.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Littles, Dine

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1877). “Spanish Salt: A Collection of All the Proverbs which are to be Found in Don Quixote”, p.26

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• It is good the have a hatch before the durre.

  John Heywood

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• Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

  Joseph Hall

  Life, Running, Ties

  "The Holy State and the Profane State". Book by Thomas Fuller, Book III, 1642.

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• It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.

  John Dryden

  Mistress, Events, Madness

  "The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author".

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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.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Fall, Ignorance, Ideas

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• The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.

  Warren Buffett

  Insightful, Investing, Affair

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• Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Thinking, People, Prudent

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1967). “1708-1720”

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• Better is to bow than break.

  John Heywood

  Bows

  "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

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• There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

  Edmund Burke

  Courage, Fear, Reptiles

  Edmund Burke (1807). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.317

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• I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.
  [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Silent, Folly

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