A Quote by William Penn

We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice. — © William Penn
We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.
Those who do wrong very often think others are censuring them, when they are not even thought of.
It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will very likely lead one into total sterility--one of the crushing problems of our time.
Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life." "I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.
'When Harry Met Sally' will endure. It will be the standard rom-com that others will improvise on for years to come.
Do not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow.
If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.
A longsuffering person will endure where others give up. He always thinks about how God has been longsuffering toward him, and he counts God's longsuffering as salvation. Longsuffering endures where no one else can endure, and it always hopes for a happy result at the end.
For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others.
I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.
Surround yourself with people that you know will take care of you. It's not so much a mistake advice - it's just advice advice.
I don't like to talk about my personal life, so I will not talk about others. I don't give advice. I give advice to only my mother, father, and brother on health.
The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others.
The advice we give others is the advice that we ourselves need.
If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it- to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger.
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