Adversity
Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience. Bishop Horne
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. Horace
The good are better made by ill, As odors crush’d are sweeter still. Rogers
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly welded by the fiercest fire.
Such a house broke!
So noble a master fallen! All gone and not
One friend to take his fortune by the arm
And go along with him. Shakespeare
Adversity’s sweet milk, Philosophy. Shakespeare
He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity.
Sweet are the uses of adversity.
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt.
Find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
And good in everything. Shakespeare
We ask advice, but we mean approbation. Colton
Let no man presume to give advice to others that has not first given good counsel to himself. Seneca
Love all, trust a few.
Do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thine own life’s key; be checked for silence.
But never taxed for speech. Shakespeare
The worst men often give the best advice. Bailey
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. La Rochefoucauld
Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade,
Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,
Bear it that the opposer may beware of thee.
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice.
Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy; rich , not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend;
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: To thine own self be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day.
Thou cans’t not then be false to any man. Shakespeare
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it. Von Knebel
Let no man value at a little price
A virtuous woman’s counsel; her winged spirit
Is feathered often times with heavenly words,
And, like her beauty, ravishing and pure. Chapman
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