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It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. - Roger Ascham

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. – Roger Ascham

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A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for his own memory sake, into short room. – Roger Ascham

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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove ones self a fool the truest heroism is to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. – John Updike

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It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly. – John George Nicolay

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Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. – William Cowper

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