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  • Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

  • Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

    Men   Limits   Use  
  • Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance. Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom," it is a very serious consideration that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.

    Essay in The Boston Gazette under the pseudonym "Candidus", October 14, 1771.
  • A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

    Love   Heart   Discretion  
    Hand of Ethelberta (1876) ch. 20
  • Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.

    Wise   Want   Causes  
  • When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

    War   Enemy   Wish  
    Sun Tzu (2012). “Sun Tzu Art of War”, p.68, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
  • The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division of labor to its extreme,--a principle which should never be followed but with circumspection,--to call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation,... and for these oversights successive generations have to pay.

    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.39, Graphic Arts Books
  • It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once, in one view, the whole scheme of nature; but to extend, with great care and circumspection, our knowledge, by just steps, from sensible things, as far as our observations or reasonings from them will carry us, in our enquiries concerning either the greater motions and operations of nature, or her more subtile and hidden works. In this way Sir Isaac Newton proceeded in his discoveries.

    Colin Maclaurin (1750). “An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries. 2. Ed”, p.20
  • There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.

    Gnats   People   Religion  
    C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.12, HarperCollins UK
  • There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.

    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.259
  • I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none. When asked what I made of blogs like my own, blogs written by parents about their children, I said, 'A blog like this is narcissism in its most obscene flowering.'

    "Living Out Loud — Online". The Salon column, www.salon.com. March 14, 2005.
  • We exhort the compromisers to open their hearts to truth, to free themselves of their wretched and blind circumspection, of their intellectual arrogance, and of the servile fear which dries up their souls and paralyzes their movements. Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternal source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too!

    "The Reaction in Germany" by Mikhail Bakunin (October 1842), signed "Jules Elysard"; as quoted in Mikhail Bakunin "Bakunin on Anarchism" edited and translated by Sam Dolgoff, www.marxists.org. 1971.
  • The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.

    Samuel Adams (1906). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”
  • There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

    Gnats   People   Ordinary  
    C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
  • Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.

    Rights   Sake   Latter  
    Samuel Adams (1906). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”
  • In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question between power and liberty; in proportion to the solemnity of acts, proclaiming the will authenticated by the seal of the people, the only earthly source of authority, ought to be the vigilance with which they are guarded by every citizen in private life, and the circumspection with which they are executed by every citizen in public trust.

  • By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

  • Sustaining silence and circumspection are two behaviors that lead to better, healthier outcomes. They are powerful without dominating.

    Powerful   Two   Silence  
    "7 Habits Of Surrendered People". omtimes.com. April 06, 2014.
  • If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.

    Samuel Adams (1906). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”
  • It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.

    C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.197, Simon and Schuster
  • The fool rushed to certain conclusions. The middling man approached them warily, and with circumspection. And the wise man, perceiving them from afar, decided to go round another way.

    Wise   Men   Afar  
    Thomas William Hodgson Crosland (1908). “Little stings”
  • Life is life. You do a lot of different things and you have great adventures but there's not a lot to talk about unless you're in the middle of an adventure at the time. Circumspection is not one of my better, favorite conditions, really.

    Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.
  • When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. If the enemy's troops march up angrily and remain facing ours for a long time without either joining battle or removing demands, the situation is one that requires great vigilance and circumspection. To begin by bluster, but afterward to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.

    Art   War   Numbers  
  • A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

    Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.26
  • Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

    George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.314
  • When it shall please God to bring thee to man's estate, use great providence and circumspection in choosing thy wife. For from thence will spring all thy future good or evil; and it is an action of life, like unto a stratagem of war; wherein a man can err but once!

    Spring   War   Men  
  • courage isn't simply a matter of leading charges: sometimes it consists in speaking up, sometimes in stoic silence, sometimes in forging ahead, sometimes in circumspection, and sometimes in nothing less than preserving our own humanity.

    Elizabeth D. Samet (2007). “Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point”, p.214, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.

  • Try to remember this: what you project Is what you will perceive; what you perceive With any passion, be it love or terror, May take on whims and powers of its own. Therefore a numb and grudging circumspection Will serve you best - unless you overdo it, Watching your step too narrowly, refusing To specify a world, shrinking your purview To a tight vision of your inching shoes, Which may, as soon as you come to think, be crossing An unseen gorge upon a rotten trestle.

    Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources

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