When he presumes to bewiser than his Creator,--when he endeavours to upset the organisation of Nature, and invents a kind of natural and moral code of his own, then comes disaster.
Therefore, we, who study the latent powers of man, judge it wiser to meet and accept our destiny rather than fall back in the race and allow destiny to overtake US and whip us into place with rods of sharp experience.
But now, she herself, having been met with such changes, had done no better, and been no wiser than they all.
But if you do not believe me that shows that you are a less changeable man than most, or I a wiser woman.
Why then in face of the first faithlessness which she had ever known, had she had no better or wiser impulse in her than that of anger?
The vine-dressers sound asleep in their cave-cabins above the Loire water are a thousand times wiser than we are!
They must, I think, be wiser than I am; They have the secret of the bull and lamb.
Let this strange commentator on individual character meet with more mercy and a wiser interpretation than he was himself capable of.
He is wiser than the melancholy Jacques in the same play, who calls all people fools, and mopes about preaching wise saws.
The world thinks him an old simpleton; but he is wiser than the world.
When this modest little expedient is compared with the imposing establishment of the French king, it looks humble enough, yet it may, when judged by the results, well be considered the wiser method of the two.
This check did not make Philip any wiser than before, but neither did it in any way damp his determination to collect such a fleet as should make an end of the English pirates.
The Governments of the Continent were beginning to grasp the fact that it would be wiser for them to make friends with the new power.
But if it is said further that those contradictions bid fair to yield to further critical study, or to a wiserunderstanding of the situations in which they are involved, that fact is overlooked.
The child was wiser than he knew when he was asked what lesson we may learn from Charles I.
Have you learned all this, and are you not a wiser and a better man?
A wiser woman in many a way was Priscilla Sanford when she turned her clear eyes eastward again.
Older and presumably wiser men have done worse, so why not Sandy?
As a rule it is the wiser policy to obtain an opinion from the Courts in all cases of doubt .
As Pitt had explicitly vetoed a change of system, it would have been wiser to have refused the post.
On the whole, it is wiser not to do so, however, as there is an extremely bad piece of road at the bottom, where it is wiser to dismount and walk two or three hundred yards.
Not in your own eyes, child; but you're so much wiser than your father and me, that words are throwed away on you.
The doctor had held his peace, and went his way a wiser if a sadder man, saying unto himself, "Bless my soul!
And then she was dressed so bewitchingly--not in gaudy contrasts, or in the extreme of the mode, but so neatly and in such a ladylike manner that she must have attracted even wiser heads than his.
Now I feel sure of you," said Archie, as they went on again, and no one the wiser for that tender transaction behind the ugly pyramid of boards.
That was my first plan; but uncle showed me that it was wiser not to make genteel paupers of them, but let them pay a small rent and feel independent.
And wiser than Athenas' wisest schools, Nor led by zealots, nor scholastic rules, Gazed at the stars which stud yon tender blue, And hoped and deemed the cheat of death untrue.
I know," replied Mary, "that wiser heads than mine find difficulty in answering your question; and it would be presumptuous in me to signify that I can solve it to your satisfaction.
They are to be taught what they ought to practise when they come to be men, according to Agesilaus; but according to the views of one who was wiser than he, they are to be trained in the way they should go.
These North American Indians who are most remarkable for this trait of character, are not found to be a whit wiser than other tribes who are more loquacious.
Reading is but speaking the thoughts of others instead of our own; and she is the best reader--and indeed most likely to be made wiser by reading-- who speaks the most naturally.
In a week, if you are prudent--in fact, the sooner you start in that direction the wiser you will be.
Besides, there's a nasty piece of stone lying off the False Point which, as the stream sets strong over it, it's wiser to keep well clear of.
At least God allowed it; and will man be wiser than God?
However, St. Leger had the right to do whatsoever he might, and he could not have chosen a wiser course had he known exactly the amount of powder in our magazine.
As it was, however, Peter Sitz himself had said it was wiser for Jacob to go, and surely he, the most interested and the most experienced in such matters, should be the judge.
I asked of the sergeant, believing for the moment that it would be wiser for us to form an independent command of two.
By Jove, little woman, in all this house of wise sayings, no wiser or deeper saying has been said than that.
Do you think it would bewiser to get a hundred shares, and then we could buy twenty-five pounds' worth of Royal Bonanza as well.
But I do think it would be wiserif I were to keep in bed.
Jordan thought that it would be wiser if I were to have an undisturbed rest, but I will send down to you when I feel better.
She knew it was wiser to ignore Marcia's slights and cutting remarks, but just the same she was still angry.
Perhaps it would bewiser to wait a little while," Brent agreed.
Or suppose for a moment we admit the explanation, and then seriously ask ourselves how much the wiser are we?
The youngest Prioress in the kingdom,' said the Bishop, 'yet none could be wiser or better fitted to hold high authority.
I hope Americans will find some day more time for play, like their wiser brethren upon the other side.
He has been wiser than his generation, but has lived to see it grow up to him.
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