Best Counsels Quotes
67 Counsels quotes by 55 unique authors
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Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.
— Thomas John Barnardo
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The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Repentance follows hasty counsels.
— Publilius Syrus
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
— Alexander Pope
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You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.
— Philip Massinger
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Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous.
— Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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In circumstances as dark as these, it becomes us, as Men and Christians, to reflect that whilst every prudent measure should be taken to ward…
— John Hancock
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Go to your confessor; open your heart to him; display to him all the recesses of your soul; take the advice that he will give…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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I expect, if I am faithful with yourselves, that I shall see the time with yourselves that we shall know how to prepare to organize…
— Brigham Young
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God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that,…
— Saint Basil
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The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls…
— John Quincy Adams
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Night is the mother of counsels.
— George Herbert
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
— Woodrow Wilson
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We…
— Samuel Adams
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In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins…
— Martin Luther
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Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Seek for the Sword that was broken In Imladris it dwells; There shall be counsels taken Stronger than Morgul-spells. There shall be shown a token…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat…
— Baruch Spinoza
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Synchronize watches at oh six hundred' says the infantry captain, and each of his huddled lieutenants finds respite from fear in the act of bringing…
— Richard Yates
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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles. It leads us through valleys…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends…
— Washington Irving
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This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity, because it tries…
— Paul Brunton
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more…
— Edmund Burke
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If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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