"There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self."

Bacon, Francis on advice
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"To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs."

Aurobindo, Ghose on advice
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"We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain."

Alger, William R. on advice
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"I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes."

Fowler, Gene on advice
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"They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles."

Franklin, Benjamin on advice
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"When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies."

Gibran, Kahlil on advice
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"It is easy to give advice from a port of safety."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on advice   

"To advise is easier than to help."

Proverb, German on advice   

"If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice."

Proverb, Chinese on advice
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"Good advice is beyond all price."

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

Macaulay, J. C. on advice
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"We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on advice   

"Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on advice   

"We may give advice, but not the sense to use it."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on advice
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"When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice."

Grange, Marquis de la on advice
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"To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own."

Gray, John on advice
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"Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order."

Hanson, Lord on advice   

"The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment."

Helps, Sir Arthur on advice
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"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."

Jong, Erica on advice
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"He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it."

Knebel, Karl Von on advice
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"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

Jefferson, Thomas on dream
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"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."

Ionesco, Eugene on dream
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"All men of action are dreamers."

Huneker, James G. on dream
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"Did anyone ever have a boring dream?"

Hodgson, Ralph on dream
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"Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation."

Hart, Johnny on dream   

"If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?"

Hammerstein, Oscar on dream
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"When you cease to dream you cease to live."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on dream
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"Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission."

Kendall, Neil on dream
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"All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men; they act out their dreams to make them reality."

Lawrence, Thomas E. on dream
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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

Poe, Edgar Allan on dream
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"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."

Poe, Edgar Allan on dream
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"In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream."

Pirandello, Luigi on dream   

"The smaller the head, the bigger the dream."

O'Malley, Austin on dream
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"Everything starts as somebody's day dream."

Niven, Larry on dream
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"Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world."

Nerval, Gerard De on dream   

"Dreams are necessary to life."

Nin, Anais on dream
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"There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream."

Macleish, Archibald on dream
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"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough."

Eschenbach, Marie E. on dream
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"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

Eliot, George on dream
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"To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed."

Edmonds, Bernard on dream
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