Good Morning Friends & Digital Neighbors! Beautiful Autumn day yesterday in so many ways. I hope you Autumn is off to a beautiful start. More quotes and a barn photo from somewhere in New York provided by the magic of DDG.
How about some quotes on advice? My first thought is the reality that unsolicited advice is given far too often, much like making matters not of one's concern something to be busied about. On to the quotes! Happy Thursday my friends! I hope enjoy my advice. 😉🤣
When we ask for advice we are usually looking for an accomplice. - Unknown
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, the deeper it sinks into the mind. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The true secret to 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. - Hannah Whitall Smith
Nothing is given so freely as advice. - French Proverb
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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