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• "Sagacious in making useful discoveries. [Lat., Utiliumque sagax rerum et divina futuri.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica (218)
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• "How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!"
  By: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. XIII, l. 375), (Pope's translation)
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• "In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!"
  By: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. VII, l. 379), (Pope's translation)
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• "For never, never, wicked man was wise."
  By: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. II, l. 320), (Pope's translation)
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• "Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But, wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice, A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice."
  By: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Iliad (bk. III, l. 199), (Pope's translation)
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• "Wisdom never lies."
  By: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
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• "Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature."
  By: Henry Home, Lord Kames
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• "Wisdom is the abstract of the past."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• "Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life."
  By: Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb)
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• "The wise man sayth, store is no sore."
  By: John Heywood
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• "Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal; know that God is unerringly wise; and be assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not overlook thee."
  By: James Hervey
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• "All foreign wisdom doth amount to this, To take all that is given, whether wealth, Or love, or language; nothing comes amiss: A good digestion turneth all to health."
  By: George Herbert
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• "Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise."
  By: Heraclitus of Ephesus
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• "Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering."
  By: Sir Arthur Helps
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• "To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth."
  By: William Hazlitt (1)
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• "Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead."
  By: Augustus William Hare
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