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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no
other.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Letter I--On a Regicide Peace (vol. V, p. 331)
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Illustrious Predecessor.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
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Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsect. 2)
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This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,--
That firste he wroughte and after he taughte.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Source: The Canterbury Tales (prologue, l. 496)
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Men think they may justly do that for which they have a
precedent.
[Lat., Quod exemplo fit, id etiam jure fieri putant.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Epistles (IV, 3)
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The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings;
and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler.
[Lat., Componitur orbis
Regis ad exemplum; nec sic inflectere sensus
Humanos edicta valent, quam vita regentis.]
Author: Claudian (Claudianus)
Source: De Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti Panegyris (CCXCIX)
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Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others;
it is the only means.
Author: Claudian (Claudianus)
Source: De Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti Panegyris (CCXCIX)
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Illustrious predecessors.
Author: Henry Fielding
Source: in the "Covent Garden Journal"
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Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Deserted Village (l. 170)
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Since truth and constancy are vain,
Since neither love, nor sense of pain,
Nor force of reason, can persuade,
Then let example be obey'd.
Author: George Granville, Lord Landsdowne
Source: To Myra
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Content to follow when we lead the way.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Iliad (bk. X, l. 141), (Pope's translation)
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As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges
them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of
others will often deter tender minds from vice.
[Lat., Avidos vicinum funus ut aegros
Exanimat, mortisque metu sibi parcere cogit;
Sic teneros animos aliena opprobria saepe
Absterrent vitiis.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Satires (I, 4, 126)
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I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an
example to deter.
Author: Junius
Source: Letter XII--To the Duke of Grafton
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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?
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Source: Satires (XIV, 56)
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat
sticks fast.
[Fr., L'exemple est un dangereux leurre;
Ou la guepe a passe, le moucheron demeure.]
Author: Jean de la Fontaine
Source: Fables (II, XVI)
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Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave us behind
Footprints on the sands of time.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: A Psalm of Life
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He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them
to live.
Author: Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
Source: Essays (bk. I, ch. XIX)
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He was indeed the glass
Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Lady Percy at II, iii)
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Sheep follow sheep.
Author: The Talmud
Source: Talmud, Ketuboth (62)
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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.]
Author: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
Source: Adelphi (III, 3, 62)
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Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject
thyself to the same.
[Lat., Felix quicumque dolore alterius disces posse cavere tuo.]
Author: Albius Tibullus
Source: Carmina (III, 6, 43)
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good
example.
Author: Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson (ch. 19)
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I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men . . . in receiving
from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious
predecessor.
Author: Martin Van Buren
Source: in his inaugural address
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He follows his father with unequal steps.
[Lat., Sequiturque patrem non passibus aequis.]
Author: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil)
Source: The Aeneid (II, 724)
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It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.
Author: Theodore M. Hesburgh
Source: None
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
Author: Golda Meir
Source: None
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You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others.
Author: Stanley C. Gault
Source: None
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If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Author: Richard Milhous Nixon
Source: None
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Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy
Source: None
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
Source: None
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