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Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not. - Laurence Sterne

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not. – Laurence Sterne

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Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. – Laurence Sterne

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power
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People who are always taking care of their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. – Laurence Sterne

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Health
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Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a mans stature as to his happiness. – Laurence Sterne

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Happiness
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This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom. – Paul Ricoeur

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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love. – Honore de Balzac

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No man was ever wise by chance. – Seneca

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Much wisdom often goes with fewest words. – Sophocles

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Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words. – Margaret Mitchell

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In many ways, history is marked as before and after Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down. – Jesse Jackson

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Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the trees inclined. – Alexander Pope

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If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. – Henry Rollins

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