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A good example has twice the value of good advice
A good example has twice the value of good advice
Content to follow when we lead the way.
Content to follow when we lead the way.
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
Men think they may justly do that for which they have a
precedent.
[Lat., Quod exemplo fit, id read more
Men think they may justly do that for which they have a
precedent.
[Lat., Quod exemplo fit, id etiam jure fieri putant.]
We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from
others an example for read more
We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from
others an example for ourselves.
[Lat., Inspicere tamquam in speculum in vitas omnium
Jubeo atque ex aliis sumere exemplum sibi.]
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave us read more
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave us behind
Footprints on the sands of time.
