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Letter "S" » sage
«It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.»
«If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.»
«Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate»
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«How late I learned the essential things in life! In my childhood, nailed to the Gemara, I led the life of a sage, and it was only later, when I was older, that I began to climb trees»
«Is the solution of the sage the pollution of a page?»
«He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.»
«Let us hope especially that the enthusiasm and exaggerations, which so easily seize men congregated in large groups - affecting human passions and leading the crowd against its own interest, sweeping up in their whirlwind the sage and philosopher as»
«Our sage and serious poet Spenser.»
«Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is - I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at - a period something like a printed page, b»
«Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.»