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Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.
The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.
Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.
He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.
Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.
Prudence dictates that there should be a balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region.
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.
A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.
Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.
The future of food security will depend on a combination of the ecological prudence of the past and the technological advances of today.
Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.
Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in a gold rush.
It is one of the oldest maxims of moral prudence: Do not, by aspiring to what is impracticable, lose the opportunity of doing the good you can effect!
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.
But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.
One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.
For those of us learning the way to financial serenity and solvency, the envelope system teaches prudence, patience, and perseverance. You can only spend what you have.
We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.
Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.
It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.
There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God.
We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.
One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken.