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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. – Margaret Fuller

Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them.
Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them.
Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him.
Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it..

But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one you’ll become a philosopher. – Socrates

Distrust interested advice.

Don’t follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

Don’t give cherries to pigs or advice to fools.

Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

Don’t ask the barber whether you need a haircut.

Don’t fight forces; use them.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.

As soon as your cart is turned over, everyone rushes to give you advice.

As time passes we all get better at blazing a trail through the thicket of advice.

Ask advice of an ignorant man and he will think you are his enemy.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Ask for advice, then use your head.

Ask for your wife’s advice and then do the opposite.

Ask someone else for advice but keep your knowledge to yourself.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

‘Be yourself!’ is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

Advice its more fun to give than to receive.

Advice on campaign behavior for first ladies: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Remember to lean back in the parade so everybody can see the president. Be sure not to get too fat because youll have to sit three in the back.

Advice should be viewed from behind.

Advice to persons about to marryödon’t.

Advice to those about to build a Water-garden – DONT. Not that the Water-garden is not a joy and a glory; but that it is cruelly hard to keep in order and control unless you are a master of millions and of broad ample acres of pool and pond. Water like fire is a good servant perhaps but is painfully liable to develop into a master.

Advice would always be more acceptable if it didn’t conflict with our plans

All the lessons of history in four sentences:
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.
The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.
The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars .

Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can’t carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head that would distract me and affect my music making.

Always do right–this will gratify some and astonish the rest.

Advice is a free gift that can become expensive for the one who gets it.

Advice is a stranger; if he’s welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day.

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

Advice is least heeded when most needed.

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

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

Advice is probably the only free thing which people won’t take.

Advice is seldom welcome and those who need it the most like it the least.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

A woman’s advice is of little value, but he who does not take it is a fool.

A woman’s first advice is her best.

A word to the wise ain’t necessary, it’s the stupid ones who need the advice.

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Advice after injury is like medicine after death.

Advice after injury is like medicine after death.

Advice is a dangerous gift, even 2 the wise from the wise & all courses may run ill.

Advice is a dangerous gift, even to the wise from the wise, and all courses may run ill.