Quotes with prudence

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  • Francis Quarles Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word ''satiety.''
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • T. S. Eliot The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Edmund Burke The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Friedrich Melchior Grimm The greatest men have not always the best heads; many indiscretions may be pardoned to a brilliant and ardent imagination. The prudence and discretion of a cold heart are not worth half so much as the follies of an ardent mind.
    Friedrich Melchior Grimm
    German-born French-language journalist, art critic and diplomat
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The only prudence in life is concentration.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry Fielding The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Those who get their living by their daily labor... have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Vauvenargues You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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