advice vs direction

advice

noun
  • An opinion offered to guide behavior in an effort to be helpful. 

  • A communication providing information, such as how an uncertain area of law might apply to possible future actions 

  • Counseling to perform a specific legal act. 

  • In commercial language, information communicated by letter; used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange 

  • In language about financial transactions executed by formal documents, an advisory document. 

  • Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. 

  • In aspect-oriented programming, the code whose execution is triggered when a join point is reached. 

direction

noun
  • Guidance, instruction. 

  • A general trend for future action. 

  • A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination. May be relative (e.g. up, left, outbound, dorsal), geographical (e.g. north), rotational (e.g. clockwise), or with respect to an object or location (e.g. toward Boston). 

  • The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc. 

How often have the words advice and direction occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )