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Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.
It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.
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.]
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
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?
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.]
A good example has twice the value of good advice
A good example has twice the value of good advice
These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the read more
These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.
