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WISDOM WISDOM

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart
Must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

CowperExpostulation. L. 634.


Some people are more nice than wise.

CowperMutual Forbearance.


But they whom truth and wisdom lead
Can gather honey from a weed. <poem>
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 | text= It seems the part of wisdom.
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 | work = Task.
 | place = Bk. IV. L. 336.
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 | text = <poem>Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much ;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

CowperTask. Bk. VI. L. 96.


Who are a little wise the best fools be.
Donne—The Triple Fool.


In much wisdom is much grief.

Ecclesiastes. I. 18.


The words of the wise are as goads.
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 | work =Ecclesiastes.
 | place = XII. 11.
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 | text =<poem> Man thinks
Brutes have no wisdom, since they know not his:
Can we divine their world?

George Eliot—The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. II.


Nequicquam sapere sapientem, qui ipse sibi
prodesse non quiret.
The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be
wise to his own advantage.

Ennius. I. Quoted by CiceroDe Officii. 3 -15


No one could be so wise as Thurlow looked.
Charles James Fox. See Campbell's Lives
of the Lord Chancellors. Vol. V. P. 661 ; also
. Said also of Webster. »
 
Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.
Benj. Franklin—Poor Richard. (1735)
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 | text = <poem>Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.
Wisdom is only found in truth.
Goethe—SprHche in Prosa. III.


Wisdom makes but a slow defence against
trouble, though at last a sure one.
 | author = Goldsmith
 | work = Vicar of Wakefield. Ch. XXI.
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 | text = The heart is wiser than the intellect.J. G. Holland—Kathrina. Pt. II.
St. 9.
Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage,
But, wise through time, arid narrative with age,
In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice,
A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
Homer—Iliad. Bk. III. L. 199
 | note = Pope's trans.


For never, never, wicked man was wise.
Homer—Odyssey. Bk. II. L. 320
 | note = Pope's trans.
In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!
Homer—Odyssey' Bk. VII. L. 379
 | note = Pope's trans.


How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
Homer—Odyssey. Bk. XIII. L. 375
 | note = Pope's trans.


Utiliumque sagax rerum et divina futuri.
Sagacious in making useful discoveries.
Horace—Ars Poetica. 218.


Sapere aude.
Dare to be wise.
Horace—Epistles. I. 2. 40.


Quis nam igjtur liber? Sapiens qui sibi imperiosus.
Who then is free? The wise man who can
govern himself.
Horace—Satires. II. 7. 83.


He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
Job. V. 13.


Wisdom shall die with you.
Job. XII. 2.


The price of wisdom is above rubies.
Job. XXVIII. 18.


Days should speak, and multitude of festra
should teach wisdom.
Job. XXXII. 7.


Great men are not always wise.
Job. XXXII. 9.


Away, thou strange justifier of thyself, to be
wiser than thou wert, by the event.
Ben Jonson—Silent Woman. Act II. Sc. 2.
Wise after the event.
Quoted by Sir George Staunton in speech
replying to Sir James Graham's resolution condemning the Melbourne ministry,
House of Commons, April 7, 1840. Homer
—Iliad. XVII. 32. Hesiod—Works and
Days. V. 79 and 202. Sophocles—Antigone. V. 1270; and 1350. Fabius—Liv.
XXII. 39. Erasmus—Epitome ChUiadum
Adaoiorum. (Ed. 1528) P. 55; 295.


Victrix fortunae sapientia.
Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune.
Juvenal—Satires. XIII. 20.
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 | text = <poem>II est plus ais6 d'etre sage pour les autres, que
pour soi-meme.
It is easier to be wise for others than for
ourselves.
La Rochefoucauld—Maximes.


Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.
 | author = Longfellow
 | work = Evangeline. Pt. I. III. L. 11.


Quisquis plus justo non sapit, ille sapit.
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
MARTlOi—Epigrammaea. XIV. 10. 2.