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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You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. – Norman Douglas

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. – Norman Douglas

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In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. – Theodore Dreiser

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

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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance. – Saadi

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Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. – Carl Sandburg

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Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge — they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely. – Vissarion Belinsky

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If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself. – Lord Chesterfield

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I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. – Robert Frost

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