{"id":736,"date":"2008-11-09T06:16:03","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T12:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artofmanliness.com\/?p=736"},"modified":"2021-06-03T10:14:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T15:14:02","slug":"manvotional-a-fathers-advice-from-hamlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/character\/manly-lessons\/manvotional-a-fathers-advice-from-hamlet\/","title":{"rendered":"Manvotional: A Father’s Advice From Hamlet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Polonius<\/p>\n

William Shakespeare’s words speak across generations and cultures. In this scene, Polonius gives a bit of fatherly advice to his son Laertes before he heads off to France. While all the advice is good, the best doesn’t come until the end- “To thine own self be true.” Be a man of honor and integrity. Live life in a way that allows you to look at yourself in the mirror and not be ashamed.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame!
\nThe wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,
\nAnd you are stay’d for. There; my blessing with thee!
\nAnd these few precepts in thy memory
\nSee thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
\nNor any unproportioned thought his act.
\nBe thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
\nThose friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
\nGrapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
\nBut do not dull thy palm with entertainment
\nOf each new-hatch’d, unfledged comrade. Beware
\nOf entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
\nBear’t that the opposed may beware of thee.
\nGive every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
\nTake each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.
\nCostly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
\nBut not express’d in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
\nFor the apparel oft proclaims the man,
\nAnd they in France of the best rank and station
\nAre of a most select and generous chief in that.
\nNeither a borrower nor a lender be;
\nFor loan oft loses both itself and friend,
\nAnd borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
\nThis above all: to thine ownself be true,
\nAnd it must follow, as the night the day,
\nThou canst not then be false to any man.
\nFarewell: my blessing season this in thee!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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