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- People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.
- Brendan Francis
- Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
- Spanish Proverb
- Never give advice unless asked.
- German Proverb
- One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
- There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
- William Wirt (1772 - 1834)
- Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
- Vachel Lindsay (1879 - 1931)
- Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.
- The Talmud
- If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
- Brendan Francis
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