#wise

It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion. ↗

— Sai Baba

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Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit. ↗

— Mary Astell

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To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

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It is impossible to love and to be wise. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt. ↗

— Lucille Ball

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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself. ↗

— Washington Allston

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