WE must consult the gentlest manner and softest seasons of address ; our advice must not fall like a violent storm, bearing down and making those to droop, whom it is meant to cherish and refresh. It must descend as the dew upon the tender herb, or like... The Western Literary Messenger - Page 3771848Full view - About this book
| Jeremiah Seed - 1745 - 470 pages
...like melting Flakes of Snow ; the Jofter it falls ; the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it finks into the Mind. If there are few, who have the Humility to receive Advice as they ought ; it is often, becaufe there are as few, who have the Difcretion to convey it in a proper Vehicle, and to qualify... | |
| Seed J. - 1747 - 468 pages
...like melting Flakes of Snow ; the fofter it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it finks into the Mind. If there are few, who have the Humility to receive Advice as they ought ; it is often, becaufe there are as few, who have the Difcretion. to convey it in a proper Vehicle, and to qualify... | |
| Jabez (uncle.) - 1799 - 242 pages
...and necessary medicine, so easy to administer and so very difficult to take — "that advice is like snow : the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the heart." Very softly did it ever fall from the lips of my dear mother. As a poor woman once observed,... | |
| James Duke Coleridge - 1825 - 132 pages
...irritated, or perhaps even his temper for a while ruffled. Of advice generally, we may say, that like snow, the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind ; but when given to a fellows-creature stretched on the bed of pain and weakness, we must still more... | |
| 1833 - 370 pages
...former he makes no impression, and from the latter he finds no production. — DR. Sovxn. Advice, like snow, the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the heart. — COLERIDOE. The ideas as well as children of our youth often die before us ; and our minds... | |
| John Taylor - 1839 - 274 pages
...meant to cherish and refresh; it must descend as the dew upon the tender herb, or like melting flakes of snow ; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells...receive advice as they ought, it is often because there are few who have the discretion to convey it in a proper vehicle, and to qualify the harshness and... | |
| William T. Bain - 1839 - 166 pages
...presume to give you a little advice upon this und some other subjects ? Coleridge compares it to ?now, the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. With regard to yourself, if I had by act or deeed, manifested any unwillingness to attend to your instructions,... | |
| 1841 - 646 pages
...meant to cherish and refresh ; it must descend as the dew upon the tender herb, or like melting flakes of snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells...receive advice as they ought, it is often because there mre few who have the discretion to convey it in R proper vehicle, and to qualify the harshness and... | |
| 1841 - 644 pages
...upon the tender herb, or like melting flakes of »now; the «öfter it falls, \ the longer it dwell« upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. If there...receive advice as they ought, it is often because there ere few who have the discretion to convey it in a proper vehicle, and to qualify the harshness and... | |
| The treasury of wit and anecdote - 1842 - 336 pages
...discretion, because we cannot resist some temptation or overcome some prejudice. ADVICE. ADVICE, like snow, the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the heart. LOVE. TIME goes on crutches till love obtain his wish. WONDERS OF THE DEEP. " MISTER Sailor,"... | |
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