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Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and t

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. – Mary Astell

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We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Informd what is the true Way to Happiness. – Mary Astell

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Happiness
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The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in Gods Eyes. – Mary Astell

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Wisdom
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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. – Mary Astell

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Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured. – Michael D. Higgins

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Of prosperity mortals can never have enough. – Aeschylus

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Wisdom is not what you know but how quickly you adjust when the opposite proves true. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Time discovers truth. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I dont know how many thoughts we have a second, but its quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper. – Robert Wyatt

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Keep your minds open, but not so open that your brains fall out. – Walter Kotschnig, c.1940

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