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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? - Norman Dougl

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? – Norman Douglas

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There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. – Norman Douglas

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

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Wisdom
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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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Happiness
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I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will. – Billy Ray Cyrus

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Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. – Leonard Nimoy

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All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. – Henry David Thoreau

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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. – Plutarch

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