Quotes with precept

  • This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.

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  • Dwight L. Moody A good example is far better than a good precept.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Aesop Example is the best precept.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Robert Cecil Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
    Robert Cecil
    English statesman (1563 - 1612)
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  • Charles Dickens Here's the rule for bargains: ''Do other men, for they would do you.'' That's the true business precept.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Samuel Smiles It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Edmund Burke It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • George Eliot It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Sir Richard Steele Let your precept be, Be easy.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments, Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know thyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Seneca The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bernard Mandeville This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.
    Source: The Fable of the Bees Remark C, p. 69
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Ronald Reagan We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • James Russell Lowell Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Seneca Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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