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Samuel Johnson
Example is always more efficacious than precept
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Confucius
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs
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Fran�ois La Rochefoucauld
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like
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Ralph Emerson
Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds
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Oliver Goldsmith
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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