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Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance. -
I Ching
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Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel. -
George Chapman
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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. -
Aeschylus
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. -
Francis Bacon
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Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one. -
Ivern Ball
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A fool think he needs no advice, but a wise man listens to others. -
Bible
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Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety. -
Bible
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Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on. -
Ambrose Bierce
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Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take. -
Josh Billings
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Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected. -
Josh Billings
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes. -
Gene Fowler
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether. -
Thomas Carlyle
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Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. -
Nelson Algren
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Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least. -
Lord Chesterfield
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In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge. -
Lord Chesterfield
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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. -
Gilbert K Chesterton
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In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice. -
Winston Churchill
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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. -
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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