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ADVICE quotes
When a man has been guilty of any vice of folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
The worst men often give the best advice.
He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the heights of the superior understanding he unites with.
Let no man value at a little price a virtuous woman's counsel.
The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve: we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.
When a man seeks your advice he generally wants your praise.
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
They that will not be counselled, cannot be helped. It you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
Good counsels observed are chains of grace.
To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own.—He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Many a man wins glory for prudence by seeking advice, then seeking advice as to what advice would be best to take, and finally following appetite.
Advice and reprehension require the utmost delicacy; painful truths should be delivered in the softest terms, and expressed no farther than is necessary to produce their due effect. A courteous man will mix what is conciliating with what is offensive; praise with censure; deference and respect with the authority of admonition, so far as can be done in consistence with probity and honor. The mind revolts against all censorian power which displays pride or pleasure in finding fault; but advice, divested of the harshness, and yet retaining the honest warmth of truth, is like honey put round the brim of a vessel full of wormwood.—Even this, however, is sometimes insufficient to conceal the bitterness of the draught.
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
Nothing is less sincere than our mode of asking and giving advice. He who asks seems to have deference for the opinion of his friend, while he only aims to get approval of his own and make his friend responsible for his action. And he who gives repays the confidence supposed to be placed in him by a seemingly disinterested zeal, while he seldom means anything by his advice but his own interest or reputation.
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good as to know how to act for one's self.
Giving advice is sometimes only showing our wisdom at the expense of another.
It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Wait for the season when to cast good counsels upon subsiding passion.
Those who school others, oft should school themselves.
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so rauch as take warning?
Do not give to your friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous.
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