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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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Beware of him that is slow to anger for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury. – Francis Quarles

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Anger
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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. – Francis Quarles

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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. – Khalil Gibran

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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. – Aristotle

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Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom. – Jonathan Sacks

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You are wise to climb Mt. Fuji, but a fool to do it twice. – Japanese Proverb

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