Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow.
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Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow.
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Through one all are known, through one all are also seen
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights._x000D_ _x000D_ But your ears thirst for the sound of the heart's knowledge. _x000D_ _x000D_ You would know in words that which you have always known in thought. _x000D_ _x000D_ You would touch with your fingers the naked body of the dreams.
Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.
And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?
With the Internet, the greatest disseminator of bad data and bad information the universe has ever known, it's become impossible to trust any news from any source at all, because it's filtered through this crazy yenta gossip line. It's impossible to know anything.
Remember, too, that if your country has the greatest name in all the world, it is because she never bent before disaster; because she has expended more life and effort in war than any other city, and has won for herself a power greater than any hitherto known, the memory of which will descend to the latest posterity.
This is the strangest life I've ever known.
The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.
I'd like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others.
It might be a kind of relief to be finished. You have to start all over again. But I believe you’re always as good as your potential. I now live in my work and in a few relationships with the few people I can really count on. Fame will go by, and, so long, I’ve had you fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.
The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.
It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can be known.
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.
This is the fear: death will come and we have not lived yet. We are just preparing to live. Nothing is ready; life has not happened. We have not known the ecstasy which life is; we have not known the bliss life is; we have not known anything. We have just been breathing in and out. We have been just existing. Life has been just a hope and death is coming near. And if life has not yet happened and death happens before it, of course, obviously, we will be afraid because we would not like to die.
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