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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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In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom. – Ezra Stiles

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. – Pierre Charron

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Every speaker has a mouth An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes its filled with wisdom. Sometimes its filled with feet. – Robert Orben

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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance. – Harold S. Geneen

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I realized the other day that Ive lived in New York longer than Ive lived anywhere else. Its amazing: I am a New Yorker. Its strange I never thought I would be. – David Bowie

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My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. Its not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metals cool, you know? Not everybody on American Idol listens to metal. – James Durbin

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We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world. – A.E. Housman

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As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests. – James S. Coleman

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