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«Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil»
«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 who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Mothers
| Keywords:
cling, cling to, clouds, counsels, desert, dissipate, dissipated, dissipates, dissipating, endeavor, fall into place, fall upon, heavy, Precepts, rejoice, Return to, sudden, The Clouds, thicken, Trials, truest
«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»
«A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and sweet carriage; sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding; love of God and self-denial; peace and confidence; hol»
Author: Jeremy Taylor
(Bishop, Clergyman, Writer)
| Keywords:
carriage, carriages, chaste, counsels, deportment, ingenuous, self-denial, unprejudiced
«For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.»
«Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge, / That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee? / Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: / For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.»
«A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: / To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.»
«Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.»
«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»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
History,
Judgement,
Liberty,
Truth
| Keywords:
conclusions, counsels, faculty, Faculty of, leave office, observations, Office of, represent, thereupon
«Ah, gentle dames! It gars me greet / To think how mony counsels sweet, / How mony lengthen'd sage advices, / The husband frae the wife despises!»
Author: Robert Burns
(Poet)
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counsels, dames, greet, lengthen, lengthened, lengthening, sage
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