"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."

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"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."

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"Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive."

Carolyn Wells, American Author

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"Giving advice is like seeing an elephant in someone's path and suggesting they remove it. Heeding advice requires forcing the elephant to budge. Huge difference."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Advice, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously."

Logan P. Smith, American Writer

Advice, Man, Sound

"It's advice, not a commandment.Don't swallow it whole until you're absolutely sure you've been given good, healthy advice."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Advice, Wisdom, Truth, Power, Regret

"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Advice, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Life

"There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad."

John Burroughs, American Author

Advice, Earth, Man, Will

"Begging for help never gets you any."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Advice, Help, Self-Reliance, Survival, Reality

"Advice is autobiography."

J.R. Rim, American Author

Advice, Identity, Experience, Perspective

"No one wants advice - only corroboration."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice."

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman

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"[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other."

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"When an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance and when he is dead we rate them by his best."

Legacy

"Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire."

Life

"I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they grew rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves, and of one another."

History

"If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father."

Emotion

"If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle."

Life

"The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity."

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"Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive."

"Giving advice is like seeing an elephant in someone's path and suggesting they remove it. Heeding advice requires forcing the elephant to budge. Huge difference."

"It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously."

"It's advice, not a commandment.Don't swallow it whole until you're absolutely sure you've been given good, healthy advice."

"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."

"There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad."

"Begging for help never gets you any."

"Advice is autobiography."

"No one wants advice - only corroboration."

"In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice."

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"[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other."

"When an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance and when he is dead we rate them by his best."

"I have found men more kind than I expected and less just."

"You can never be wise unless you love reading."

"Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye."

"Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire."

"If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father."

"If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle."

"The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity."