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«The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.»
Author: Pierre Charron
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advertisement, counsel, exhort, exhorted, exhorting, highway, practiced, preach, profitable, the highway
«Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words), I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me? (2 Kings 18:20)»
«Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.»
«To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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«When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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counsel, counseled, counseling, number, reduce, turn to
«Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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Action,
Foresight,
Risk-taking
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