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A Select Collection of Wise Sayings

By Simran Khurana, About.com

John Keats: Wise Sayings
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty" - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Erin Majors: Wise Sayings
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

Emmett Fox: Wise Sayings
A man dies daily, only to be reborn in the morning, bigger, better and wiser.

Francis Bacon: Wise Sayings
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Rosalie Graham: Wise Sayings
A road twice travelled is never as long.

Chinese proverb: Wise Sayings
A single conversation across a table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Unknown Author: Wise Sayings
A single moment of understanding can flood a whole life with meaning.

English proverb: Wise Sayings
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

Thomas Fuller: Wise Sayings
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Baltasar Gracian: Wise Sayings
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

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