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A Select Collection of Wise Quotes

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Wise Quotes
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Lao-Tzu: Wise Quotes
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Aristotle: Wise Quotes
All human beings, by nature, desire to know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Wise Quotes
All life is an experiment.

Benjamin Franklin: Wise Quotes
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Dr. Albert Schweitzer: Wise Quotes
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere. The pessimist sees only the red light. But the truly wise person is color blind.

Alexander Pope: Wise Quotes
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Earl Chesterfield: Wise Quotes
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.

Napolean Hill: Wise Quotes
Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.

Charles Nicolle: Wise Quotes
Chance favors only those who court her.

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