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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
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This is the year which people will talk about
This is the year which people will be silent about. The old see the young die.
The foolish see the wise die. The earth no longer produces, it devours.
The sky hurls down no rain, only iron.Poems, 1913-1956 Finland 1940 [Finnland 1940] (1940), trans. Sammy -
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 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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Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
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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 interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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 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 say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
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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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