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Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and read more
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an
example to deter.
I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an
example to deter.
The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set read more
The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example
He was indeed the glass
Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.
He was indeed the glass
Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.
Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject
thyself to the same.
[Lat., Felix quicumque dolore read more
Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject
thyself to the same.
[Lat., Felix quicumque dolore alterius disces posse cavere tuo.]
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
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.
