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- Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.
- Author Unknown
- Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.
- Author Unknown
- Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
- Ben Johnson
- Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is
- Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
- Where we go and what we do advertises what we are.
- Author Unknown
- A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.
- Author Unknown
- Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
- Leighton
- Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
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