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Advice Quotes
"When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek."
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"She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)."
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"Mark it, nuncle.Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest,Lend less than thou owest,Ride more than thou goest,Learn more than thou trowest,Set less than thou throwest,Leave thy drink and thy whoreAnd keep in-a-door,And thou shalt have moreThan two tens to a score."
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"If anybody seeks your advice, offer right and sincere advice."
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"Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least."
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"It is easy to give advice from a port of safety."
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"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least."
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"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."
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"I've been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book or lecture."
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"First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!"
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"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."
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"Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution."
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"My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!"
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"I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both."
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"If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself."
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"I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening."
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"You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board."
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"I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck."
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"My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support issue since January and will offer advice to schools during the Autumn term."
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"Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate."
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"The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice."
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"It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging."
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"Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it."
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"Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field."
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"Advice should only be given when it is sought, otherwise our own worthiness gets assessed."
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"Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching."
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"My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate."
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"The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all."
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"The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?"
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"There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice."
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