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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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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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Norman Douglas
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It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. – Norman Douglas

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Society
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Its not what you look at that matters, its what you see. – Henry David Thoreau

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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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At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly. – Mason Cooley

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Wisdom

But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end. – John Jewel

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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