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Quote by Anne Bradstreet
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitte

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. – Anne Bradstreet

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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. – Anne Bradstreet

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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. – George Eliot

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He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. – Mary Wilson Little

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We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days. – Robert Hall

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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. – Thomas Carlyle

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