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Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety."

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.

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.

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

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

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.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.

To change one's mind is rather a sign of prudence than ignorance.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Vices enter into the composition of virtues as poison into that of medicines. Prudence collects and blends the two and renders them useful against the ills of life.

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. The Conservative.

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.
Randolph Silliman Bourne

But prudence can also be understood as the difference between good and bad. I know the road we've taken is the good and prudent one.
Alejandro Toledo

We think care and prudence going forward are equally necessary.
Scott Harshbarger

In terms of prudence, you would like to see other revenue streams.
Martin Pyykkonen

If the administrative phase is conducted in two different courts and it leads to two different verdicts, then prudence and judicial economy would tell us that these proceedings should be consolidated into one court. It only makes sense.
Robert Hager

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