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Wine-Counsels seldome prosper. -- George Herbert
Night is the mother of counsels. -- George Herbert
Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills. -- Thomas John Barnardo
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest. -- Livy
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil. -- Claude Adrien Helvetius
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. -- Woodrow Wilson
Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it. -- Hesiod
My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time. -- Sissy Spacek
We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo. -- Emanuel Celler
The Bible, that powerful book, has many effects: it comforts, counsels, instructs, and brings us into the presence of God. But trying to erase offense as one of its functions is a fundamentally misguided task. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life. -- Akhenaton
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, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury. -- Saint Basil
Repentance follows hasty counsels. -- Publilius Syrus
Hasty counsels are generally followed by repentance. -- Decimus Laberius
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay. -- Tacitus
Wait for the season when to cast good counsels upon subsiding passion. -- William Shakespeare
United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise. -- John Milton
Risking one's life can be strangely liberating. That's what the sea counsels me. -- Diane Wilson
Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics. -- Alexander Pope
Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous. -- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all. -- Mason Cooley
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels. -- Baron de Montesquieu
The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter. -- Luc de Clapiers
The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat. -- Luc de Clapiers
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil. -- Claude Adrien Helvetius
If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it. -- Luc de Clapiers
The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them. -- Michel de Montaigne
I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain. -- Thomas Aquinas
The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man. -- Matthew Henry
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Remember the proverb: 'A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent. -- Idries Shah
Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys. -- Francis Quarles
Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned. -- Honore de Balzac
Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels. -- Joseph Addison
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
An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.] -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises. -- Robert Burns
Nothing is so rash as fear; its counsels very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate the evils from which it would fly. -- Edmund Burke
But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels. -- John Milton
The ordinary saying is, Count money after your father; so the same prudence adviseth to measure the ends of all counsels, though uttered by never so intimate a friend. -- Frances Osborne
The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves. -- Luc de Clapiers
What is the structure of government that will best guard against the precipitate counsels and factious combinations for unjust purposes, without a sacrifice of the fundamental principle of republicanism? -- James Madison
We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come. -- Abraham Lincoln
...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition... -- Amelia Barr
It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment -- Francis Bacon
The alternate triumphs of different parties ... make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels. -- George Washington
The king shall singly deliberate over secret matters; for ministers have their own ministers, and these latter some of their own; this kind of successive line of ministers tends to the disclosure of counsels. -- Chanakya
Be wise; let prudence dictate all your counsels; preserve peace with all men, if possible; stand by the Constitution of your country; observe its principles; and above all, show yourselves men of God, worthy citizens. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.

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