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Do not always be thinking of attack! Moves that safeguard your position are often far more prudent.
We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
A prudent pharmacist often vends something for your complaint. But wine merchant you do this invariably.
I talk a lot about taking risks, and then I follow that up very quickly by saying, 'Take prudent risks.'
Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves.
Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it.
It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?
A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.
When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
Most of the other soldiers were older than me and sent money back to their families, so they were more prudent.
It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.
I don't think the AAA is an end in itself; we will maintain prudent financial management with or without the AAA.
Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.
Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
Patience and discipline can make you look foolishly out of touch until they make you look prudent and even prescient
It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it.
[Margaret Thatcher] was always talking about what the prudent housewife should do and what the prudent housewife knew.
Because there can be consequences for saying the first thing that pops into our heads, it is prudent to exercise tact.
In respect to foresight and firmness, the people are more prudent, more stable, and have better judgement than princes.
Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets
I think that protecting children at the age where they're most vulnerable against diseases that are highly contagious is prudent.
Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad.
I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
Love, the fairest among the undying gods, who loosens the limbs of all gods and men, conquers resolve and prudent counsel within the breast.
When George W. Bush picked Dick Cheney, it was a reassuring sign that the Texas governor would have an experienced, prudent voice at his side.
Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.
If you find a node that you can penetrate, that you can eliminate, and draw more information for future operations, I think it's prudent to do.
I spent some time back in Mexico at 16 because my parents thought it would be prudent for me to learn Spanish, because I held a Mexican passport.
I try to be prudent with everything and fortunately I have enough to support me in a nice middle-class lifestyle, while I try to do other things.
You have to be very prudent with what you are doing and what sort of tools you are utilizing. Drones have become a wonderful new tool in filmmaking.
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.
And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republic that supports democratization selectively is another matter.
We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.
True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.
What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
Social-impact partnerships address our moral responsibilities to ensure that social programs actually improve recipients' lives, and to do so in a fiscally prudent manner.
Morrigan "Don't worry I'm following my instincts." Birkita "Perhaps you could find a way to prudently follow your instincts" Morrigan "I'm eighteen, nothing I do is prudent
I have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It's a dream of mine to go there, but it's such a volatile area, you have to be prudent.
Modern free-traders... embrace their ideal with a passion that makes Robespierre seem prudent. They embrace unbridled free trade, even as it helps China become a superpower.