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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rules on composition: it produces vigilance rather than elevation, rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often escapes miscarriages but seldom reaches either power or honor. It quenches that ardor of enterprise by which every thing is done that can claim praise or admiration; and represses that generous temerity which often fails and often succeeds. Rules may obviate faults, but can never confer beauties; and prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1759-05-19), The Idler, No. 57More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/2133/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #caution #circumspection #commonsense #discretion #happiness #prudence #safety #shrewdness #takingcare #wariness
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rules on composition: it produces vigilance rather than elevation, rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often escapes miscarriages but seldom reaches either power or honor. It quenches that ardor of enterprise by which every thing is done that can claim praise or admiration; and represses that generous temerity which often fails and often succeeds. Rules may obviate faults, but can never confer beauties; and prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1759-05-19), The Idler, No. 57More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/2133/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #caution #circumspection #commonsense #discretion #happiness #prudence #safety #shrewdness #takingcare #wariness
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rules on composition: it produces vigilance rather than elevation, rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often escapes miscarriages but seldom reaches either power or honor. It quenches that ardor of enterprise by which every thing is done that can claim praise or admiration; and represses that generous temerity which often fails and often succeeds. Rules may obviate faults, but can never confer beauties; and prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1759-05-19), The Idler, No. 57More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/2133/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #caution #circumspection #commonsense #discretion #happiness #prudence #safety #shrewdness #takingcare #wariness
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rules on composition: it produces vigilance rather than elevation, rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often escapes miscarriages but seldom reaches either power or honor. It quenches that ardor of enterprise by which every thing is done that can claim praise or admiration; and represses that generous temerity which often fails and often succeeds. Rules may obviate faults, but can never confer beauties; and prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1759-05-19), The Idler, No. 57More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/2133/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #caution #circumspection #commonsense #discretion #happiness #prudence #safety #shrewdness #takingcare #wariness
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rules on composition: it produces vigilance rather than elevation, rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often escapes miscarriages but seldom reaches either power or honor. It quenches that ardor of enterprise by which every thing is done that can claim praise or admiration; and represses that generous temerity which often fails and often succeeds. Rules may obviate faults, but can never confer beauties; and prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1759-05-19), The Idler, No. 57More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/2133/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #caution #circumspection #commonsense #discretion #happiness #prudence #safety #shrewdness #takingcare #wariness
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
True eloquence consists in saying all that need be said and no more.
[La véritable éloquence consiste à dire tout ce qu’il faut, et à ne dire que ce qu’il faut.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶250 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #communication #discretion #eloquence #necessary #needful #propriety #requirement #silence #speaking
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
A man always is to be himself the judge of how much of his mind he will show to other men; even to those he would have work along with him. There are impertinent inquiries made: your rule is to leave the inquirer uninformed on that matter; not, if you can help it, misinformed; but precisely as dark as he was!
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-22), “The Hero as King,” Home House, Portman Square, LondonMore info about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/22409…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #discretion #impertinence #innerself #privacy #privatelife #snooping #trueself
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
A man always is to be himself the judge of how much of his mind he will show to other men; even to those he would have work along with him. There are impertinent inquiries made: your rule is to leave the inquirer uninformed on that matter; not, if you can help it, misinformed; but precisely as dark as he was!
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-22), “The Hero as King,” Home House, Portman Square, LondonMore info about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/22409…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #discretion #impertinence #innerself #privacy #privatelife #snooping #trueself
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
A man always is to be himself the judge of how much of his mind he will show to other men; even to those he would have work along with him. There are impertinent inquiries made: your rule is to leave the inquirer uninformed on that matter; not, if you can help it, misinformed; but precisely as dark as he was!
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-22), “The Hero as King,” Home House, Portman Square, LondonMore info about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/22409…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #discretion #impertinence #innerself #privacy #privatelife #snooping #trueself
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
A man always is to be himself the judge of how much of his mind he will show to other men; even to those he would have work along with him. There are impertinent inquiries made: your rule is to leave the inquirer uninformed on that matter; not, if you can help it, misinformed; but precisely as dark as he was!
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-22), “The Hero as King,” Home House, Portman Square, LondonMore info about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/22409…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #discretion #impertinence #innerself #privacy #privatelife #snooping #trueself
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Paramount+ Lands ‘Discretion’ Starring Nicole Kidman & Elle Fanning With Straight-To-Series Order In Major Move For New Regime
#News #ChandlerBaker #Discretion #ElleFanning #NicoleKidman #Paramount #SusannahGrant -
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Nicole Kidman & Elle Fanning Attached To Star In Legal Series ‘Discretion’ In The Works At A24
#News #A24 #ChandlerBaker #Discretion #ElleFanning #NicoleKidman #SusannahGranthttps://deadline.com/2025/09/nicole-kidman-elle-fanning-discretion-a24-1236545766/
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Ma meilleure tactique pour la discrétion : essayer de les convaincre qu'en fait ils ont rien entendu. Bon, souvent ils viennent voir quand même, mais tant pis pour eux. Je fais pourtant tout pour les sauver, moi...
#Fallout #Fallout4 #aventure #chill #supermutant #discretion
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts I suppose the first effect would be that almost all friendships would be dissolved.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 8 “Persecution Mania” (1930)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/783…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #candor #discretion #frankness #friendship #mindreading #secrets #telepathy #whitelies
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Naviguer un coup de cœur pour un collègue nécessite de reconnaître ses sentiments, d'évaluer la situation professionnelle, de rester discret et d'établir des limites. A lire ici --> https://wp.me/pbyKZP-1bb7 #coupdecoeur #drague #beauxmecs #bureau #excitation #discretion #beauxgosses #Crush #collègues #gay
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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou owest, all thou hast, nor all thou canst.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1739 ed.)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/76…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #PoorRichardsAlamanack #bragging #boasting #discretion #ego #reticence #silence
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A quotation from Taleb, Nassim Nicholas:
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People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than in what you are trying to hide.
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https://wist.info/taleb-nassim-nicholas/73541/#quote #quotes #quotation #discretion #equivocation #hiding #interest #showing #truthseeking
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A quotation from Taleb, Nassim Nicholas:
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People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than in what you are trying to hide.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/taleb-nassim-nicholas/73541/#quote #quotes #quotation #discretion #equivocation #hiding #interest #showing #truthseeking
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A quotation from Taleb, Nassim Nicholas:
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People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than in what you are trying to hide.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/taleb-nassim-nicholas/73541/#quote #quotes #quotation #discretion #equivocation #hiding #interest #showing #truthseeking
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"We must believe in free will… we have no choice." — Isaac Singer — — — #IsaacSinger #quote #quotes #quip #oxymoron #freewill #choice #inevitable #voluntary #predetermined #discretion #humorous #humor
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#NewHampshire #Legislature #Repeals Several #Protections Against #Trans #Discrimination.
#Bill legalizes #discrimination by #privateentities, allowing #private #businesses, to #exclude #transgender individuals at the #owner's #discretion.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #NewHampshire #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-hampshire-repeals-several-protections
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Some relevant hashtags for this new position: #expertise, #knowledge, #STS, #professions, #culture, #AI, #automation, #technology, #digitalization, #theorizing, #QualitativeMethods, #education, #healthcare, #imaginaries, #narratives, #discretion, #commodon, #Medsoc, #Sociology #ethnography, #standardization, #identity, #interactionism
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CW: Word fun and fuzzing