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• Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Meditation, Calm, Wealth

  'Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples' (1818)

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• Unkind people spread malicious tales, and well-intentioned people also censure; but in either case the tranquil sage remains unconcerned. Nowhere is there to be found a disconcerted sage.

  Gautama Buddha

  People, Found, Tales

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• For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

  Alexander Pope

  Guests, Welcome, Hospitality

  'Imitations of Horace' Horace bk. 2, Satire 2 (1734) l. 159 ('speed the parting guest' in Pope's translation of The Odyssey (1725-6) bk. 15, l. 84)

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• IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril than that their peril is ultimately unreal. And if we wish to exalt the outcast and the crucified, we shall rather wish to think that a veritable God was crucified, rather than a mere sage or hero. Above all, if we wish to protect the poor we shall be in favour of fixed rules and clear dogmas. The rules of a club are occasionally in favour of the poor member. The drift of a club is always in favour of the rich one.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Hero, Thinking

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• ...And these vicissitudes come best in youth;
  For when they happen at a riper age,
  People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth,
  And wonder Providence is not more sage.
  Adversity is the first path to truth:
  He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage,
  Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty,
  Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.

  Lord Byron

  Truth, War, Adversity

  Lord Byron (2009). “Don Juan”, p.520, The Floating Press

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• She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head.

  Susan Donovan

  Running, Loss, Missing

  Susan Donovan (2015). “The Susan Donovan Collection: The Kept Woman, Knock Me Off My Feet, and He Loves Lucy”, p.1002, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• The Tao of the sage is work without effort.

  Laozi

  Work, Effort, Taoism

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wisdom, Intelligence, Century

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• The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Wisdom, Intelligence, Mankind

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.44, 谷月社

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• As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.

  Dante Alighieri

  Science, White, Light

  Dante Alighieri (1950). “The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri: the Carlyle-Okey-Wicksteed translation”

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• The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
  As sages in all times assert;
  The happy man's without a shirt.

  John Heywood

  Happiness, Laughter, Loss

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1919.

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• Oh, most magnificent and noble Nature!
  Have I not worshipped thee with such a love
  As never mortal man before displayed?
  Adored thee in thy majesty of visible creation,
  And searched into thy hidden and mysterious ways
  As Poet, as Philosopher, as Sage?

  Humphry Davy

  Science, Men, Mysterious Ways

  Sir Humphry Davy, John DAVY (M.D., F.R.S.) (1858). “Fragmentary Remains, Literary and Scientific, of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. ... With a sketch of his life, and selections from his correspondence. Edited by his brother John Davy”, p.14

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• To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.

  Laozi

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Sick

  Laozi, Jingxiong Wu (1997). “Dao teh jing”

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• Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. an unknown sage - whose name is self. In yourt body he dwells; he is your body. There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wisdom, Brother, Self

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• In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference lies in the degree.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Wisdom, Lying, Differences

  "Satires (Satire 4)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1716.

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• On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth: Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.

  Walter Scott

  Soul, Age, Glee

  Sir Walter Scott (1866). “Poetical Works ... With a biographical and critical memoir by Francis Turner Palgrave. (The Globe edition.).”, p.138

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• Prepare for the difficult while it is still easy. Deal with the big while it is still small. Difficult undertakings have always started with what easy. Great undertakings always started with what is small. Therefore the sage never strives for the great,And thereby the great is achieved.

  Laozi

  Character, Easy, Strive

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• Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The builder oak, sole king of forests all, The aspin good for staves, the cypress funeral, The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage, the fir that weepest still, The yew obedient to the bender's will, The birch for shafts, the sallow for the mill, The myrrh sweet-bleeding in the bitter wound, The warlike beech, the ash for nothing ill, The fruitful olive, and the platane round, The carver holm, the maple seldom inward sound.

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Kings, Funeral

  1590 The Faerie Queen, bk.1, canto 1, stanzas 8-9. plantan=plane tree; holme=holly.

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• A seeker searched for years to know the secret of achievement and success in human life. One night in a dream a sage appeared bearing the answer to the secret. The sage said simply: "Stretch out your hand and reach what you can." "No, it can't be that simple," the seeker said. And the sage said softly, "You are right, it is something harder. It is this: Stretch out your hand and reach what you cannot." Now that's vision.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Dream, Simple, Night

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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.

  Origen

  Believe, Mouths, Lips

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• We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.

  Zhuangzi

  Joy, Body, Chance

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• But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom.

  Sheldon Vanauken

  Reality, Love Is, Men

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• He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.

  Publilius Syrus

  Doe, Profit, Despicable

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 629, 1856.

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• Heaven cannot but be high. Earth cannot but be broad. The sun and moon cannot but revolve. All creation cannot but flourish. To do so is their TAO. But it is not from extensive study that this may be known, nor by dialectical skill that his may be made clear. The true sage will have none of these.

  Zhuangzi

  Moon, Skills, Heaven

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• If you want to nourish a bird, you should let it live any way it chooses. Creatures differ because they have different likes and dislikes. Therefore the sages never require the same ability from all creatures. . . concepts of right should be founded on what is suitable. The true saint leaves wisdom to the ants, takes a cue from the fishes, and leaves willfulness to the sheep.

  Zhuangzi

  Sheep, Likes And Dislikes, Bird

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