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Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.
[Sp., No adventures mucho tu riqueza.]
Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.
[Sp., No adventures mucho tu riqueza.]
'Twas good advice, and meant,
"My son, be good."
'Twas good advice, and meant,
"My son, be good."
If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of
counsellers there is safety.
For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of
counsellers there is safety.
Ah, gentle dames! it gars we greet,
To think how mony consels sweet,
How mony lengthened, sage read more
Ah, gentle dames! it gars we greet,
To think how mony consels sweet,
How mony lengthened, sage advices,
The husband frae the wife despises.
Be niggards of advice on no pretense;
For the worst avarice is that of sense.
Be niggards of advice on no pretense;
For the worst avarice is that of sense.
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod.
If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod.
Take the first advice of a woman and not the second.
[Lat., Primo dede mulieris consilio, secundo noli.]
Take the first advice of a woman and not the second.
[Lat., Primo dede mulieris consilio, secundo noli.]