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«The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right»
Author: Hannah Whitall Smith
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Advice
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advice, honestly, indifferent, perfectly, persist, persist in, tried and true
«Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
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attainable, persevere, persevered, perseveres, persevering, persist
«The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.»
«The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.»
«No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.»
«To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish»
«Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -should persist after the beauty was gone.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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Beauty
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accompanies, excusable, persist, rate, understandable, vanity
«The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.»
«That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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becomes, doing, easier, increased, Itself, persist, persisted, persisting, persist in, power, The Nature of Things, The Thing, thing in itself
«Thus to persistIn doing wrong extenuates not wrong,But makes it much more heavy.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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extenuate, extenuates, heavy, persist, persist in
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