Quote by Francis Quarles
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a g

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester. – Francis Quarles

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Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune. – Francis Quarles

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Fear
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Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor. – Francis Quarles

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Faith
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Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived. – Francis Quarles

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Fear
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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Wisdom

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Fathers power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel. – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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Wisdom

A nations treasure is its scholars. – Yiddish Proverb

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Wisdom

Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured. – Michael D. Higgins

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Wisdom

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History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity. – Dexter Perkins

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History

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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