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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.
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.
It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.
It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.
A good example has twice the value of good advice
A good example has twice the value of good advice
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
Whence do you derive the power and privilege of a parent, when
you, though an old man, do worse read more
Whence do you derive the power and privilege of a parent, when
you, though an old man, do worse things (than your child)?
[Lat., Unde tibi frontem libertatemque parentis,
Cum facias pejora senex?
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others;
it is the only means.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others;
it is the only means.
