Quote by Edward Young
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek u

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought. – Edward Young

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. – Edward Young

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Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them. – Mo Udall

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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact. – Harry Dean Stanton

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The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it. – Frederick William Robertson

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