"Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform."
-William Penn
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"He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.“
-William Penn
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"Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers."
-William Penn
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"Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers."
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"Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee."
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"For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity."
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"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst."
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"Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity."
-Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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"A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one."
-Lord John Russell
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"Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means."
-Francis Hutcheson
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"This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will."
-Stanford Moore
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"I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom."
-Nina Totenberg
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"The result showed the wisdom of your orders."
-John Bigelow
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