“I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.”
Letter One (17 February 1903)
Letters to a Young Poet (1934)
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Mair (2003) cited in: Eddie Mair http://quernstone.com/archives/2003/05/eddie-mair.html in: The Daily Grind Jonathan. Sanderson’s weblog, May 23, 2003.
Quote while concluding a slightly incomprehensible interview on financial affairs with the PM.
From PM and Broadcasting House
““Be yourself” is about the worst advice you can give some people.”
Thomas L. Masson, The Book of Today, (1923), as cited in: Clifton Fadiman (1955) The American treasury, 1455-1955. p. 791.
Evelyn Collier, Chapter 15, p. 223
Source: 2009, The Best of Me (2011)
“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.
“What you do not use yourself, do not give to others. For example, advice.”
May 11
Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)
