Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety."
Francis Quarles
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Jonathan Swift
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
Henry Fielding
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.
Samuel Johnson
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.
Catherine McAuley
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
Charles Caleb Colton
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.
Origen
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.
Robert E. Lee
Where passion leads or prudence points the way.
Robert Lowth
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
Robert Dale Owen
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
Luc de Clapiers
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