Good nature without prudence, is foolishness


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TURKISH PROVERB
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
JOHN MORLEY
A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.
YUGOSLAV PROVERB
Prudence is precaution, prudence is protection.
AMIT KALANTRI
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
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JOHN B. BEJO
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ETHAN ZOHN
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The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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JOHN KEATS
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MARVIN OLASKY
Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
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Patient's sureness is equal to Doctor's foolishness
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JOHN KEATS
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JOSEMARíA ESCRIVá
The only prudence in life is concentration.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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JANE SMILEY
Faith is foolishness,but with a positive goal.
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Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness
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Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB
A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
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MILAN KUNDERA
Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.
EMILY DICKINSON
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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
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JECON B. NADELA
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SUNDAY ADELAJA
This is time for prudence among lenders and investors.
CHARLES DALLARA
Precaution is better than cure. [Lat., Praestat cautela quam medela.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO)
Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.
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GEORGE CHAPMAN
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SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
Look before you ere you leap.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1)
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HENRY DE BRACTON (BRATTON OR BRETTON)
It is always good When a man has two irons in the fire.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER
Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid wooed by incapacity.
BIBLE
Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without ...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU
Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.
HENRY FIELDING
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AKHENATON
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BIBLE
He is a dangerous fellow, keep clear of him. (That is: he has hay on his horns, showing he is dan...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Get Estates may venture more. Little Boats must keep near Shore.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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SASKYA PANDITA
Better is to bow than breake.
JOHN HEYWOOD
Let us not throw the rope after the bucket. [Sp., No arrojemos la soga tras el caldero.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA)
If thou art terrible to many, then beware of many. [Lat., Multis terribilis, caveto multos.]
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts
HENRY FIELDING
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NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his fathe...
BIBLE
. . . Therefore I am wel pleased to take any coulor to defend your honour and hope you wyl remember...
ELIZABETH I
He that fights and runs away will live to fight another day.
OLD ENGLISH RHYME
A coward is a man who chose to be prudent.
JECON B. NADELA
For chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
EURIPIDES
I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stu...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO)
According to her cloth she cut her coat.
JOHN DRYDEN
One can't get diseases of Mad Chicken or Mad Pig by eating tomatoes or almonds or figs.
O ANNA NIEMUS
Yee have many strings to your bowe.
JOHN HEYWOOD
It is good the have a hatch before the durre.
JOHN HEYWOOD
The first years of man must make provision for the last.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered. [Ger., Wer si...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS
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RICHARD HOOKER
But we can't deploy everything. We would have to use prudence in how we share our resources.
LISA RAY
If you are hearing voices in your head, just listen to them; But to take action is your choice.
EFRAIN JIMENEZ VAZQUEZ
The lord is wonderfully good to those who wait for him and seek him.
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BIBLE
Nature acts without masters.
HIPPOCRATES
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PLATO
Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.
EDWARD ABBEY
What we have is collective foolishness, rather than collective wisdom!
DR. VINOD B. NAIR
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER
The heart that loves is always young. -Greek Proverb.
GREEK PROVERB
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb).
GREEK PROVERB
Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB
One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB
Nature cannot live in pollution and we cannot live without nature.
TAUSEEF SHAH
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.
UNKNOWN
Wisdom dwells with prudence
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