#caution

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

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We had a single find of BSE in this country. And we believe that what we're doing is appropriate action taken in an abundance of caution under the circumstances. And I believe it's the right thing to do. ↗

— Ann Veneman

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution. ↗

— James Thomson

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Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs. ↗

— Tom Waits

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As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million. ↗

— George Wald

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I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses. ↗

— Bill Walsh

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Action makes more fortune than caution. ↗

— Charlotte Whitton

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The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed. ↗

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

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