"Example is the best precept."

Aesop · Example · 2 fans >>
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"The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship."

Angelis, Barbara De · Example · 1 fans >>
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"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character."

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"Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."

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"No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist."

Breton, Andre · Example · 0 fans >>
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"A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words."

Brooks, Phillips · Example · 2 fans >>
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"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other"

Burke, Edmund · Example · 1 fans >>
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"What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others."

Confucius · Example · 1 fans >>
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"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."

Eliot, George · Example · 1 fans >>
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"The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo · Example · 1 fans >>
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