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Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
Thomas Aquinas
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Wiley has given me wise words a few times.


Stormzy
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The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
William Ellery Channing
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A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Thomas Hobbes
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When deeds speak, words are nothing.


Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.


Walter Bagehot
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We all want to be a little glamorous, a little playful and a little mischievous at times.


Jason Wu
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A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.


Confucius
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Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Frederick Douglass
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No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.
Protagoras
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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.


Douglas Horton
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Heinrich Heine
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.


Harriet Beecher Stowe
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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.


Benjamin Franklin
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A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
George Matthew Adams
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Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.


William Shakespeare
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Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.
Phillips Brooks
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The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.


William Arthur Ward
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Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.


Hesiod
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