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wise men may
Charles Caleb Colton A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.
wise money thinking
Charles Caleb Colton It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.
wise art moments
Charles Caleb Colton The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
wise foolish gravity
Charles Caleb Colton Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
wise men thinking
Charles Caleb Colton He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
wise men littles
Charles Caleb Colton We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.
wise men darkness
Charles Caleb Colton As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are, so the sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise beyond what is permitted to man, plunges into a darkness more deplorable, and a blindness more incurable than that of the common herd, whom he despises, and would fain instruct.
wise men mediocrity
Charles Caleb Colton There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can possibly possess. Had Charles the First and Louis the Sixteenth been more wise or more weak, more firm or more yielding, in either case they had both of them saved their heads.
long wit long-time
Charles Dickens Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.
long trials hardship
Charles Stanley You may go through difficulty, hardship, or trial—but as long as you are anchored to Him, you will have hope.
long might serving-god
Charles Spurgeon I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might.
long people giving
Charles Spurgeon I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one.
long eternity endless
Charles Spurgeon Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless!
long doe christ
Charles Spurgeon He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of him yet.
long care doe
Charles Spurgeon Satan does not care whether he drags you down to hell as a Calvinist or as an Arminian, so long as he can get you there.
long effort mind
Alan Watts Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen.
long enlightenment standards
Alan Watts Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.
age way young
Charles Dickens I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.
age waste excess
Charles Caleb Colton The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
age matter fairytale
Charles Dickens In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.
age pay time-is-money
Charles Stross I've reached an age at which I'd rather pay more for something that "just works" than roll up my sleeves, reach for a spanner, and make it work. Time is money, and the older we get the less of it we've got left.
agents very-good turns
Alan Rickman I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.
age towns my-family
Alan Jackson Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
age golden golden-rule
Alan Alda Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.
age church baptists
Al Sharpton My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
age purpose dies
Al Sharpton Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.