The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts. From LearnThat.org. [Henry Fielding (1707-1754)]
In what we call prudence, caution, and care, fear undoubtedly plays some part, and. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Says it's logical for McCain to show what he called prudence in the election cycle. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2008] Reference
Our ethical conduct and fiscal prudence is beyond reproach. From Wordnik.com. [David Paul: The Problem Is Not Jon Stewart] Reference
You are rather young; you will realize now, I trust, that more prudence is advisable. From Wordnik.com. [Indiana] Reference
What is commonly called prudence in such concerns is only another name for vice and cruelty. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Who Did] Reference
Work, depending on temperance and prudence, is desirable to create and acquire the property. From Wordnik.com. [In Praise of Temperance, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
For Chile's governing Concertación coalition, prudence is providing a belated political boost. From Wordnik.com. [The ultimate counter-cyclical asset: A prudent politician's popularity] Reference
That would make everyone realise that Brown's claim to competence and prudence is entirely ephemeral. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-13] Reference
It's because we have to preserve a country that we built to be great and prudence is the only way to do it. From Wordnik.com. [If Mike and Tom Can Get Along, Why Can't Canada?] Reference
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation. From Wordnik.com. [Knut Hamsun - Banquet Speech] Reference
Having broken into a house, he found everything locked up and could take nothing, so he dubbed my prudence fear. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
Human prudence is not willing to perform every duty in earnestness and humility, and trust the rest to Providence. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother's Book] Reference
Our reasonings as to the conduct of life, as far as moral prudence is concerned, must depend ultimately upon facts. From Wordnik.com. [Belinda] Reference
In the funeral home, the man of prudence is completely at sea without a recognizable landmark or bearing to guide him. From Wordnik.com. [The Undertaker's Racket] Reference
One common way of denying that prudence is required for leadership is to cast political decisions as essentially easy. From Wordnik.com. [August 21st, 2009] Reference
The word prudence is taken in two senses: in the one it may bear the name of knowledge of the world, in the other that of private prudence. From Wordnik.com. [Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals. Second Section: Transition from Popular Moral Philosophy to the Metaphysic of Morals.] Reference
"That's what's called prudence, having a substitute ready.". From Wordnik.com. [The Social Cancer] Reference
Say to wisdom: Thou art my sister: and call prudence thy friend. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision] Reference
Anger is styled zeal; avarice is called prudence; and deception, wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost] Reference
No one doubted his bravery, but some have called his prudence in question. From Wordnik.com. [A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself.] Reference
She was prudent, and Caroline also was prudent; but their prudence was a different kind. From Wordnik.com. [The Bertrams] Reference
If we fail, we fail in wisdom -- and in prudence, which is a valuable attribute of wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
We recommend you to practice discretion and prudence, that is the role we enact, is it not?. From Wordnik.com. [Ninon de L'Enclos the Celebrated Beauty of the 17th Century]
In the face of uncertainty, works of art and architecture embodied enduring lessons in prudence. From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
This is how we made war, and this is what the officials of Orenburg called prudence and foresight. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughter of the Commandant] Reference
And he should be adorned with a moral virtue called prudence; for righteousness cannot be perfect without prudence. From Wordnik.com. [The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage] Reference
For that which is called prudence, or shrewdness, or (if we must have the most dignified title for it) wisdom, is all theoretical. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
"It was too low for a good shot" or "I didn't want to hit the dog" will get the taleteller extra credit for "prudence" -- once or twice. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"It was too low for a good shot" or "I didn't want to hit the dog" will get the tale-teller extra credit for "prudence" - once or twice. From Wordnik.com. [The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines] Reference
Therefore a special kind of prudence is regnative. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Therefore prudence which is right reason, is not about singulars. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Therefore there is no need of a special kind of prudence called political. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
For sobriety is a kind of prudence, as people say, and justice also needs the presence of prudence. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
This is called "prudence" in respect of the common notion of prudence, i.e. as being right reason applied to action, while it is called. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
The deficiency of gesture on our parts may be a necessary result of that prudence which is so marked a feature of the English character. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841] Reference
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