Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.
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.
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.
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!
I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
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