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Quote by Joseph Addison
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but t

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. – Joseph Addison

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A person terrified with the imagination of spectres, is more reasonable than one who thinks the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless. – Joseph Addison

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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. – Joseph Addison

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Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding places in a voluminous writer. – Joseph Addison

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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. – George Eliot

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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, its not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, its girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it. – Elizabeth Berkley

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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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