Source: Guilty Pleasures
“I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.”
“I sometimes give myself excellent advice. Occasionally, I even listen to it.”
Source: Ghost Story
“I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.”
Variant: She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Source: The Dangerous Summer (1985), Ch. 1
“I give you advice, which could I myself follow, I should be happy.”
Letter I : Abelard To Philintus, as translated by John Hughes<!-- 1782 edition -->
Letters of Abelard and Heloise
Context: Sometimes I grieve for the house of the Paraclete, and wish to see it again. Ah, Philintus! does not the love of Heloise still burn in my heart? I have not yet triumphed over that happy passion. In the midst of my retirement I sigh, I weep, I pine, I speak the dear name of Heloise, pleased to hear the sound, I complain of the severity of Heaven. But, oh! let us not deceive ourselves: I have not made a right use of grace. I am thoroughly wretched. I have not yet torn from my heart deep roots which vice has planted in it. For if my conversion was sincere, how could I take a pleasure to relate my past follies? Could I not more easily comfort myself in my afflictions? Could I not turn to my advantage those words of God himself, If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if the world hate you, ye know that it hated me also? Come Philintus, let us make a strong effort, turn our misfortunes to our advantage, make them meritorious, or at least wipe out our offences; let us receive, without murmuring, what comes from the hand of God, and let us not oppose our will to his. Adieu. I give you advice, which could I myself follow, I should be happy.
"The Beatings Must Continue" http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/the-beatings-must-continue-2/, 30 April 2013
The Conscience of a Liberal blog
“I would talk to myself but I’m not a good listener.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
When the Leaves Blow Away (2006), I Still Have a Pony (2007)
Source: 6 Bishops on Their Favorite Saints, Spirituality https://www.ncregister.com/blog/6-bishops-on-their-favorite-saints-spirituality (21 January 2020)
