All 45 Uses of
prudent
in
Selected Essays
- Authors we have, in numbers, who have written out their vein, and who, moved by a commendable prudence, sail for Greece or Palestine, follow the trapper into the prairie, or ramble round Algiers, to replenish their merchantable stock.†
Chpt 1.prudence = good sense and caution
- A wise man will extend this lesson to all parts of life, and know that it is the part of prudence to face every claimant, and pay every just demand on your time, your talents, or your heart.†
Chpt 2.
- Cheapest, say the prudent, is the dearest labor.†
Chpt 2. *
- Their rage is decorous and prudent, for they are timid as being very vulnerable themselves.†
Chpt 3.
- Seen from the nook and chimney-side of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.†
Chpt 5.prudence = good sense and caution
- It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer.†
Chpt 5.
- All prudent men see that the action is clean contrary to a sensual prosperity; for every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good.†
Chpt 5.
- But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.†
Chpt 5.
- That false prudence which dotes on health and wealth is the butt and merriment of heroism.†
Chpt 5.prudence = good sense and caution
- If you would serve your brother, because it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you.†
Chpt 5.
- I would not be frivolous before the admirable reserve and prudence of time, yet I cannot renounce the right of returning often to this old topic.†
Chpt 8.prudence = good sense and caution
- PRUDENCE.†
Chpt 10.
- [660] What right have I to write on Prudence, whereof I have little, and that of the negative sort†
Chpt 10.
- My prudence consists in avoiding and going without, not in the inventing of means and methods, not in adroit steering, not in gentle repairing.†
Chpt 10.
- Then I have the same title to write on prudence that I have to write on poetry or holiness.†
Chpt 10.
- Prudence is the virtue of the senses.†
Chpt 10.
- The world of the senses is a world of shows; it does not exist for itself, but has a symbolic character; and a true prudence or law of shows recognizes the co-presence of other laws and knows that its own office is subaltern; knows that it is surface and not centre where it works.†
Chpt 10.
- Prudence is false when detached.†
Chpt 10.
- The world is filled with the proverbs[663] and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessed no other faculties than the palate, the nose, the touch, the eye and ear; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three, which never subscribes, which gives never, which seldom lends, and asks but one question of any project,—Will it bake bread?†
Chpt 10.
- The world is filled with the proverbs[663] and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessed no other faculties than the palate, the nose, the touch, the eye and ear; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three, which never subscribes, which gives never, which seldom lends, and asks but one question of any project,—Will it bake bread?†
Chpt 10.
- It sees prudence not to be a several faculty, but a name for wisdom and virtue conversing with the body and its wants.†
Chpt 10.
- The spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy.†
Chpt 10.
- The true prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.†
Chpt 10.
- Prudence does not go behind nature and ask whence it is?†
Chpt 10.
- On the other hand, nature punishes any neglect of prudence.†
Chpt 10.
- But what man shall dare task another with imprudence?†
Chpt 10.imprudence = the quality of lacking good sense and cautionstandard prefix: The prefix "im-" in imprudence means not and reverses the meaning of prudence. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
- Who is prudent?†
Chpt 10.
- We must call the highest prudence to counsel, and ask why health and beauty and genius should now be the exception rather than the rule of human nature?†
Chpt 10.prudence = good sense and caution
- Poetry and prudence should be coincident.†
Chpt 10.
- Whilst something higher than prudence is active, he is admirable; when common sense is wanted, he is an encumbrance.†
Chpt 10.
- There is nothing he will not be the better for knowing, were it only the wisdom of Poor Richard,[681] or the State-street[682] prudence of buying by the acre to sell by the foot; or the thrift of the agriculturist, to stick[683] in a tree between whiles, because it will grow whilst he sleeps; or the prudence which consists in husbanding little strokes of the tool, little portions of time, particles of stock and small gains.†
Chpt 10.
- There is nothing he will not be the better for knowing, were it only the wisdom of Poor Richard,[681] or the State-street[682] prudence of buying by the acre to sell by the foot; or the thrift of the agriculturist, to stick[683] in a tree between whiles, because it will grow whilst he sleeps; or the prudence which consists in husbanding little strokes of the tool, little portions of time, particles of stock and small gains.†
Chpt 10.
- The eye of prudence may never shut.†
Chpt 10.
- Our Yankee trade is reputed to be very much on the extreme of this prudence.†
Chpt 10.
- Let him learn a prudence of a higher strain.†
Chpt 10.
- 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.†
Chpt 10.
- Prudence concerns the present time, persons, property and existing forms.†
Chpt 10.
- So, in regard to disagreeable and formidable things, prudence does not consist in evasion or in flight, but in courage.†
Chpt 10.
- Thus truth, frankness, courage, love, humility, and all the virtues range themselves on the side of prudence, or the art of securing a present well-being.†
Chpt 10.
- The great man will not be prudent in the popular sense; all his prudence will be so much deduction from his grandeur.†
Chpt 11.
- The great man will not be prudent in the popular sense; all his prudence will be so much deduction from his grandeur.†
Chpt 11.prudence = good sense and caution
- But it behooves each to see, when he sacrifices prudence, to what god he devotes it; if to ease and pleasure, he had better be prudent still; if to a great trust, he can well spare his mule and panniers who has a winged chariot instead.†
Chpt 11.
- But it behooves each to see, when he sacrifices prudence, to what god he devotes it; if to ease and pleasure, he had better be prudent still; if to a great trust, he can well spare his mule and panniers who has a winged chariot instead.†
Chpt 11.
- I suppose that the highest prudence is the lowest prudence.†
Chpt 11.prudence = good sense and caution
- I suppose that the highest prudence is the lowest prudence.†
Chpt 11.
Definitions:
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(1)
(prudent) sensible and careful
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Prudence is also a female name.