Wine counsels seldom prosper. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Repentance follows hasty counsels. [ Syrus ]
The counsels that are given in wine,
Will do no good to you or thine. [ Proverb ]
Admonished, let us follow better counsels. [ Virgil ]
Good counsels observed are chains to grace. [ Fuller ]
That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where hourly I converse
With the old sages and philosophers;
And sometimes, for variety, I confer
With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,
Deface their ill-placed statues. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
Hasty counsels are generally followed by repentance. [ Laberius ]
Crimes succeed by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay. [ Tacitus ]
An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. [ Cicero ]
In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest. [ Livy ]
Rest not upon scattered counsels, for they will rather distract and mislead than settle and direct. [ Bacon ]
I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence. [ Cicero ]
Good counsels observed are chains to grace, which neglected, prove halters to strange undutiful children. [ Fuller ]
His tongue dropped manna, and could make the worse appear the better reason, to perplex and dash maturest counsels. [ Milton ]
Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels. [ Addison ]
No receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. [ Bacon ]
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 unprejudicate understanding, love of God and selfdenial, peace and confidence, holy prayers and spiritual comfort, and a pleasure of spirit infinitely greater than the sottish pleasure of unchastity. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
What is more pleasing than the sight of the affectionate mother, watching with untiring devotion over her helpless child? Who can contemplate her devotion to the object of her love, enduring his waywardness, forgiving his faults, relieving his pains, and enjojdng his pleasures; pouring incessantly into his opening soul the mature wisdom of her counsels, and following him with her untiring prayers, as he finally goes forth to battle with the temptations and trials of life, without feeling that the true mother's heart is the noblest of heaven's gifts? [ H. Winslow ]