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title: "12 Counsels Quotes by 10 authors"
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> [Wine-Counsels seldome prosper.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-herbert/wine-counsels-seldome-prosper/)

[George Herbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-herbert/)

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> [“There are rich counsels in the trees.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-p-horne/there-are-rich-counsels-in-the-trees/)

[Herbert P. Horne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-p-horne/)

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> [“plague in the city, Master Azereos, the Counsels”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/plague-in-the-city-master-azereos-the-counsels/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Always follow good counsels.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-xiv/always-follow-good-counsels/)

[Louis XIV](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-xiv/)

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> [Hasty counsels are generally followed by repentance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/decimus-laberius/hasty-counsels-are-generally-followed-by-repentance/)

[Decimus Laberius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/decimus-laberius/)

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> [Repentance follows hasty counsels.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/publilius-syrus/repentance-follows-hasty-counsels/)

[Publilius Syrus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/publilius-syrus/)

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> [Night is the mother of counsels.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-herbert/night-is-the-mother-of-counsels/)

[George Herbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-herbert/)

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> [In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/livy/in-difficult-and-desperate-cases-the-boldest-counsels-are-the-safest/)

[Livy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/livy/)

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> [“A pastor who counsels an abuse victim to: - Submit to her husband - Pray harder, or - Be a better wife…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caroline-abbott/a-pastor-who-counsels-an-abuse-victim-to-submit-to-her-husband-pray/)

[Caroline Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caroline-abbott/)

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> [...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-tullius-cicero/the-counsels-of-the-divine-mind-had-some-glimpse-of-truth-when-they/)

[Marcus Tullius Cicero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-tullius-cicero/)

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> [It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/it-is-the-true-office-of-history-to-represent-the-events-themselves/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woodrow-wilson/there-is-something-better-if-possible-that-a-man-can-give-than-his/)

[Woodrow Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woodrow-wilson/)

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