Quotes 381 till 400 of 483.
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Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.
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Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel.
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Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves. And though you have had, and may have, many mightier and wiser princes sitting in this seat; yet you never had, nor shall have any that will love you better.
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Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.
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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
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To be wise and love exceeds man's might.
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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
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To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
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To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
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To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
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To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
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Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.
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True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
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Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
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Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
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