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Letter "S" » sage
«A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| About:
Communication,
Silence,
Speech
| Keywords:
sage, sager, timely
«A person whose all works are free from selfish desires and motives, and whose all Karma is burned up in the fire of Self-knowledge, is called a sage by the wise.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
| Keywords:
sage
«ABSENT, adj. Peculiarly exposed to the tooth of detraction; vilifed; hopelessly in the wrong; superseded in the consideration and affection of another.To men a man is but a mind. Who cares What face he carries or what form he wears? But woman's body is the woman. O, Stay thou, my sweetheart, and do never go, But heed the warning words the sage hath said: A woman absent is a woman dead. --Jogo Tyree»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
adj, detraction, detractions, exposed, sage, supersede, superseded, supersedes, The Warning, tooth
«For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest»
«Call the bald man, ''Boy;'' make the sage thy toy; greet the youth with solemn face; praise the fat man for his grace.»
«Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.»
«A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.»
«Ah, gentle dames! It gars me greet / To think how mony counsels sweet, / How mony lengthen'd sage advices, / The husband frae the wife despises!»
Author: Robert Burns
(Poet)
| Keywords:
counsels, dames, greet, lengthen, lengthened, lengthening, sage
«Gentlemen, you have just been listening to that Chinese sage, On Too long»
«Hell shared with a sage is better than paradise with a fool»
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