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| | Ralph Waldo Emerson's Prudence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | My prudence consists in avoiding and going without, not in the inventing of means and methods, not in adroit steering, not in gentle repairing. |
 | | Prudence does not go behind nature, and ask whence it is. It takes the laws of the world, whereby man's being is conditioned, as they are, and keeps these laws, that it may enjoy their proper good. |
 | | The prudence which secures an outward well-being is not to be studied by one set of men, whilst heroism and holiness are studied by another, but they are reconcilable. |
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