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Quote by Samuel Johnson
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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There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner? – Samuel Johnson

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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. – Samuel Johnson

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Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. – Euripides

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

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Never speak of a rope in the family of one who has been hanged. – Proverb

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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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Winning is not a sometime thing its an all time thing. You dont win once in a while, you dont do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. – Vince Lombardi

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