{"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:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/character\/manhood\/manvotional-a-fathers-advice-from-hamlet\/","title":{"rendered":"Manvotional: A Father&#8217;s Advice From Hamlet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"nonwhite aligncenter wp-image-1062 size-full\" title=\"polonius hamlet\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/\/2008\/11\/poloniuszzz.jpeg\" alt=\"Polonius illustration by shakespeare.\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2008\/11\/poloniuszzz.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2008\/11\/poloniuszzz-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>William Shakespeare&#8217;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&#8217;t come until the end- &#8220;To thine own self be true.&#8221; 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><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame!<br \/>\nThe wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,<br \/>\nAnd you are stay&#8217;d for. There; my blessing with thee!<br \/>\nAnd these few precepts in thy memory<br \/>\nSee thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,<br \/>\nNor any unproportioned thought his act.<br \/>\nBe thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.<br \/>\nThose friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,<br \/>\nGrapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;<br \/>\nBut do not dull thy palm with entertainment<br \/>\nOf each new-hatch&#8217;d, unfledged comrade. Beware<br \/>\nOf entrance to a quarrel, but being in,<br \/>\nBear&#8217;t that the opposed may beware of thee.<br \/>\nGive every man thy ear, but few thy voice;<br \/>\nTake each man&#8217;s censure, but reserve thy judgment.<br \/>\nCostly thy habit as thy purse can buy,<br \/>\nBut not express&#8217;d in fancy; rich, not gaudy;<br \/>\nFor the apparel oft proclaims the man,<br \/>\nAnd they in France of the best rank and station<br \/>\nAre of a most select and generous chief in that.<br \/>\nNeither a borrower nor a lender be;<br \/>\nFor loan oft loses both itself and friend,<br \/>\nAnd borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.<br \/>\nThis above all: to thine ownself be true,<br \/>\nAnd it must follow, as the night the day,<br \/>\nThou canst not then be false to any man.<br \/>\nFarewell: my blessing season this in thee!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Shakespeare&#8217;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&#8217;t come until the end- &#8220;To thine own self be true.&#8221; Be a man of honor and integrity. Live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[502,6,42272],"tags":[42295],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-character","category-featured","category-manhood","tag-manvotionals"],"featured_image_urls":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2008\/11\/poloniuszzz-150x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2008\/11\/poloniuszzz-225x300.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126242,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/126242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}