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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. Action makes more fortune than caution. Caution is the parent of safety. Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others. Caution is a most valuable asset in fishing, especially if you are the fish. Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness. It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution. More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution. Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed. There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear. You go for it. All the stops are out. Caution is to the wind, and you're battling with everything you have. That's the real fun of the game. Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer. It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it. Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective Constitutional Spheres; avoiding in the exercise of the Powers of one department to encroach upon another. Great constitutional provisions must be administered with caution. Some play must be allowed for the joints of the machine, and it must be remembered that legislatures are ultimate guardians of the liberties and welfare of the people in quite as great a degree as the courts. |





