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The best
advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell
us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of
themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and
leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what
our own form of right action is.
-- Phillips Brooks
1835-1893, American Minister,
Poet
Talk that does
not end in any kind of action is better suppressed
altogether.
-- Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish
Philosopher, Author
Let no man
under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
-- George Chapman
1557-1634, British Dramatist,
Translator, Poet
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
1694-1773, British Statesman,
Author
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Advice is
seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like
it the least.
-- Lord Chesterfield
1694-1773, British Statesman,
Author
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
1874-1936, British Author
In those days
he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my
advice.
-- Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman,
Prime Minister
Advice is like
snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the
deeper it sinks into the mind.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet,
Critic, Philosopher
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