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• It was the maxim, I think, of Alphonsus of Aragon, that dead counsellors are safest. The grave puts an end to flattery and artifice, and the information we receive from books is pure from interest, fear, and ambition. Dead counsellors are likewise most instructive, because they are heard with patience and with reverence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Ambition, Thinking

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Rambler”, p.410

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• It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Taken, Giving, Wells

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.202

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• Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.

  Sallust

  Action, Wells, Advise

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• The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

  Edmund Burke

  Pride, Men, Suffering

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.317

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• I lay very little stress either upon asking or giving advice. Generally speaking, they who ask advice know what they wish to do, and remain firm to their intentions. A man may allow himself to be enlightened on various points, even upon matters of expediency and duty; but, after all, he must determine his course of action, for himself.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Stress, Men, Giving

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• Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Bad Advice, Adviser

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• Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Acceptance, Giving, Made

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• It would truly be a fine thing if men suffered themselves to be guided by reason, that they should acquiesce in the true remonstrances addressed to them by the writings of the learned and the advice of friends. But the greater part are so disposed that the words which enter by one ear do incontinently go out of the other, and begin again by following the custom. The best teacher one can have is necessity.

  Francois de la Noue

  Teacher, Writing, Men

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• I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Hamlet And Ophelia, Lessons

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1803). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. ; with Glossarial Notes”, p.146

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• Success is a great deodorant.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Life, Success, Congratulations

  1977 ABC TV broadcast, 6 Apr.

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• Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.

  Emma Thompson

  Children, Needs, Ears

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• My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it

  Robert Montgomery

  Clever, Believe, Never Quit

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• When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Strong, Desire, Weakness

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Giving, May

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “The Way to Wealth: Advice, Hints, and Tips on Business, Money, and Finance”, p.12, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Giving, Facts

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 93, 1678.

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• Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Generosity, Giving, Philanthropy

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• Whatever your advice, make it brief.

  Horace

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• A never-failing way to get rid of a fellow is to tell him something for his own good.

  Kin Hubbard

  Way, Failing, Fellows

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• Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest.

  William Shakespeare

  Speak Less, Speak, Lear

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 4, l. [132]

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• Bosom upon my counsel; You'll find it wholesome.

  William Shakespeare

  Bosoms

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• The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.

  Edgar Degas

  Giving, Secret, Different

  Richard Thomson, Edgar Degas, Whitworth Art Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum (1987). “The private Degas”

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• One day Boudin said to me, 'Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.' I took his advice.

  Claude Monet

  Light, Blue, Sea

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• Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice.

  Mu Xin

  Ideas, Records, Remember

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• Always keep your best work.

  Sergei Bongart

  Best Work

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• I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Responsibility, Giving, Unnecessary

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