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Book of Wise Sayings

by W. A. Clouston

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361

Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.

Lavater.

362

Wit and wisdom differ. Wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is in bringing about ends.

Selden.

363

Real and solid happiness springs from moderation.

Goethe.

364

In all the world there is no vice
Less prone t’excess than avarice;
It neither cares for food nor clothing:
Nature’s content with little, that with nothing.

Butler.

365

Beside the streamlet seated, mark how life glides on:
That sign, how swift each moment goes, to me’s enough.
Behold this world’s delights, and view its various pains:
If not to you, the joy it shows to me’s enough.

Hāfiz.

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