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Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often m

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. – Samuel Johnson

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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. – Samuel Johnson

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Getting money is not all a mans business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. – Samuel Johnson

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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. – Henry de Bracton

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Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor. – Samuel Johnson

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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. – John Milton

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