"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."

Bacon, Francis on advice
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"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."

Aesop on advice
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"Be smart, be intelligent and be informed."

Alesandra, Tony on advice
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"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least."

Chesterfield, Lord on advice
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"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on advice
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"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."

Franklin, Benjamin on advice
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"Peace is the first thing the angels sang."

Leo The Great on angels
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"We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs."

Keble, John on angels
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"We are never like angels till our passion dies."

Denham, Sir John on angels
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"Angels fly because they take themselves lightly."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on angels
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"It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only."

Blake, William on angels
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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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"When in doubt, don't."

Gellerman, Saul W. on advice
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"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone."

Foster, Robert D. on prayer
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"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough."

Eckhart, Meister on prayer
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"Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts."

Buttrick, George on prayer
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"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

Bunyan, John on prayer
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"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks."

Brooks, Phillips on prayer
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"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."

Augustine, St. on prayer
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"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."

Kierkegaard, Søren on prayer
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"Purity of heart is to will one thing."

Kierkegaard, Søren on purity
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"Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays."

Kierkegaard, Søren on prayer
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"Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart."

Graham, Ruth on prayer
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"We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them."

West, Charles C. on prayer
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"Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves."

Wolpe, David J. on prayer
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"I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime."

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"Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much."

Cosby, Bill on children
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"There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right."

Cosby, Bill on quality   

"I wasn't always black... There was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger."

Cosby, Bill on racism
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"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

Cosby, Bill on success
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"Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet."

Cosby, Bill on parents and parenting   

"That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked."

Cosby, Bill on marriage
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"A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice."

Cosby, Bill on advice
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"The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague."

Cosby, Bill on advertising
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"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him."

Menninger, Karl A. on love
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