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

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If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail. – Francis Quarles

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

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Wisdom

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom. – George MacDonald

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Wisdom

Wisdom sails with wind and time. – John Florio

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Wisdom

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. – Aesop

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Wisdom

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Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesnt count. – Neil Simon

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Money

Its commonly said that people whove been ill in childhood and whove had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you dont look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, thats a help. – John Keegan

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Education

The test of civilization is its estimate of women. – George William Curtis

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Women

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside? – Mary Douglas

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Jealousy