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Quote by Norman Douglas
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. – Norman Douglas

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In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action. – Louis D. Brandeis

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. – Pierre Charron

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The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it. – Frederick William Robertson

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Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned. – Thomas Reid

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Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it — even if I have said it — unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. – Buddha

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If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect. – Ted Turner

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