No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
Interpretation
Honesty is essential for true wisdom and safety in life.
This quote by Walter Raleigh suggests that genuine wisdom and a sense of security come not from superficial knowledge or status, but from being honest and truthful in one's actions and character. It underlines the idea that integrity provides a foundation for making wise choices and fostering trust with others.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal values, you could say, 'No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.'
Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams:_x000D_ _x000D_ The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;_x000D_ _x000D_ So, when affection yields discourse, it seems_x000D_ _x000D_ The bottom is but shallow whence they come._x000D_ _x000D_ They that are rich in words, in words discover
Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.
Even such isTime, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust, Who in the dark and silent grave When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days, And from which earth, and grave, and dust The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.
If she undervalues me, _x000D_ _x000D_ What care I how fair she be?
If all the world and love were young,_x000D_ _x000D_ And truth in every shepherd's tongue,_x000D_ _x000D_ These pretty pleasures might me move_x000D_ _x000D_ To live with thee, and be thy love.
It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.
Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself.
I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.
When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.
Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
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