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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. (Arthur Conan Doyle)[][]
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. (William Wordsworth)[][]
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth. (Sara Teasdale)[][]
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. (Jeremy Taylor)[][]
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. (The Talmud)[][]
Wisdom comes by disillusionment. (George Santayana)[][]
Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why. (Johann Kaspar Lavater)[][]
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. (William James)[][]
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God. (Euripides)[][]
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)[][]
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? (Norman Douglas)[][]
In Greece wise men speak and fools decide. (Anacharsis)[][]
The pine stays green in winter...Wisdom in hardship. (Chinese Proverb)[][]
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. (Lord Chesterfield)[][]
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