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[Quote No.15873] Need Area: Friends > General
"One watch set right will do to set many by; one that goes wrong may be the means of misleading a whole neighborhood; and the same may be said of example." - Lewis W. Dilwyn
(1778 - 1855) English naturalist
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[Quote No.15874] Need Area: Friends > General
"People seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy after. [If they don't have a real example, let them create an imaginary model to follow!]" - Oliver Goldsmith
(1728 - 1774) English poet, dramatist and novelist.
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[Quote No.15875] Need Area: Friends > General
"We can do more good by being good [and setting an example], than in any other way." - Rowland Hill
(1744 - 1833) English preacher
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[Quote No.15876] Need Area: Friends > General
"Every great example takes hold of us with the authority of a miracle, and says to us, 'If ye had but faith, ye, also, could do the same things'." - Friedrich H. Jacobi
(1743 - 1819) German philosopher
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[Quote No.15879] Need Area: Friends > General
"So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. [A morality he called The Principle of Universality, which echoes what has been called the basis of ethics, the Principle of Reciprocity, which states we should do to others as we would have them do to us.]" - Immanuel Kant
(1724 - 1804) German philosopher
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[Quote No.15883] Need Area: Friends > General
"No life can be pure in its purpose, and strong in its strife, and all life not be purer and stronger thereby. [...for the power of the example.]" - Owen Meredith
(1831 - 1891) English poet
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[Quote No.15884] Need Area: Friends > General
"There is no part of history, which seems capable of either more instruction [by eample] or entertainment, than that which offers to us the lives of great and virtuous men who have made an eminent figure on the public stage of the world. In these we see what the annals of a whole age can afford that is worthy of notice; and in the wide field of universal history gather all its flowers, and possess ourselves of all that is good in it." - Bishop Middleton
(1683 - 1750) English divine
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[Quote No.15885] Need Area: Friends > General
"There are bad examples that are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality, than from the violation of law." - Charles de Secondat Montesquieu
(1689 - 1755) French philosopher
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[Quote No.15889] Need Area: Friends > General
"Nothing is so contagious as example. Never was any considerable good or evil done without producing its like. We imitate good actions through emulation; and bad ones through the evil of our nature, which shame conceals, but example sets at liberty.
" - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(1630 - 1680) French courtier and moralist
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[Quote No.15890] Need Area: Friends > General
"A world of mischief may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(4 B.C. - 65 A.D.) Roman stoic philosopher
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[Quote No.15892] Need Area: Friends > General
"Noble examples stir us up to noble actions, and the very history of large and public souls inspires a man with generous thoughts." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(4 B.C. - 65 A.D.) Roman stoic philosopher
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[Quote No.15894] Need Area: Friends > General
"Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him." - Samuel Smiles
(1812 - 1904) English biographer
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[Quote No.15897] Need Area: Friends > General
"There is a transcendent power in example. We reform others unconsciously, when we walk uprightly." - Madame Swetchine
(1782 - 1857) Russian mystic
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[Quote No.15899] Need Area: Friends > General
"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips." - Unknown
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[Quote No.15901] Need Area: Friends > General
"There is a moral excellence attainable by all who have the will to strive for it..." - George Crabbe
(1754 - 1832) English poet
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[Quote No.15937] Need Area: Friends > General
"The best principles, if pushed to excess, degenerate into fatal vices. Generosity is nearly allied to extravagance; charity itself may lead to ruin; and the sternness of justice is but one step removed from the severity of oppression." - Archibald Alison
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[Quote No.15939] Need Area: Friends > General
"Pliability and liberality, when not restrained within due bounds, must ever turn to the ruin of their possessor." - Tacitus
(55 - 120) Roman historian
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[Quote No.15940] Need Area: Friends > General
"The moral sentiments nourish and feed us." - Henry Ward Beecher
(1813 - 1887) American clergy
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[Quote No.15978] Need Area: Friends > General
"Expedients are for an hour [of foolishness] but [moral] principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build on the shifting sands." - Henry Ward Beecher
(1813 - 1887) American clergy
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[Quote No.15979] Need Area: Friends > General
"When private virtue is hazarded on the perilous cast of expediency, the pillars of the republic, however apparent their stability, are infected with decay at the very center." - Edwin Hubbell Chapin
(1814 - 1880) American Unitarian clergy
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[Quote No.15980] Need Area: Friends > General
"...nothing can be truly expedient which is unlawful or sinful." - Charles Simmons
(1798 - 1856) American clergy and litterateur
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[Quote No.16012] Need Area: Friends > General
"For all the centuries of experience, [many] men have not yet learned how to live together without compounding their vices and covering each other 'with mud and with blood'." - Reinhold Niebuhr
(1892 - 1971) U.S. Protestant theologian
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[Quote No.16068] Need Area: Friends > General
"They never fail who die in a great cause." - Lord Byron
George Gordon Noel Byron 6th Baron (1788 - 1824) English Poet
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[Quote No.16071] Need Area: Friends > General
"Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success." - Edward Dowden
(1843 - 1913) Irish critic
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[Quote No.16094] Need Area: Friends > General
"In some attempts [to do something noble], it is glorious even to fail." - Longinus
(213 - 273) Greek philosopher
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[Quote No.16098] Need Area: Friends > General
"Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles." - Jawaharlal Nehru
(1889 - 1964) Indian politician
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[Quote No.16114] Need Area: Friends > General
"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough." - Dr. George W. Crane
(1861 - 1928) American clergy and journalist
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[Quote No.16116] Need Area: Friends > General
"Faith of one person in another is the basis of human relationships, in business and all phases of life. People want to know that they can depend on you." - C. Ingram
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[Quote No.16125] Need Area: Friends > General
"Faith is like love; it cannot be forced. As trying to force love begets hatred, so trying to compel religious beliefs leads to unbelief." - Arthur Schopenhauer
(1788 - 1860) German philosopher
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[Quote No.16128] Need Area: Friends > General
"Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than of Man[kind]." - Sophocles
(495 B.C. - 406 B.C.) Greek tragic poet
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[Quote No.16136] Need Area: Friends > General
"Faith, hope and charity [love] - if we had more of the last we would need less of the the other two." - Unknown
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[Quote No.16142] Need Area: Friends > General
"If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live." - George Edward Woodberry
(1855 - 1930) American author
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[Quote No.16144] Need Area: Friends > General
"That nature only is good when it shall not do unto another whatever is not good for its own self." - Dadistan-I-Dinik
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[Quote No.16156] Need Area: Friends > General
"Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off." - Sir William Davenant
(1606 - 68) English poet laureate
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[Quote No.16158] Need Area: Friends > General
"An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of its words and deeds.
" - Edward Everett
(1794 - 1865) American statesman and orator
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[Quote No.16159] Need Area: Friends > General
"To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be bought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed." - Samuel Johnson
(1709 - 1784) English author, lexicographer and conversationalist
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[Quote No.16161] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is an indiscreet and troublesome ambition that cares so much about fame; about what the world says of us; to be always looking in the faces of others for approval; to be always anxious about the effect of what we do or say; to be always shouting to hear the echoes of our own voices." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807 - 82) American poet
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[Quote No.16162] Need Area: Friends > General
"All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly." - Michel de Montaigne
(1533 - 1592) French essayist
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[Quote No.16163] Need Area: Friends > General
"Let us satisfy our own consciences, and trouble not ourselves by looking for fame. If we deserve it, we shall attain it; if we deserve it not, we cannot force it. The praise bad actions obtain dies soon away; if good deeds are at first unworthily received, they are afterward more properly appreciated." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(4 B.C. - 65 A.D.) Roman stoic philosopher
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[Quote No.16164] Need Area: Friends > General
"Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds." - Socrates
(469 B.C. - 399 B.C.) Greek philosopher
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[Quote No.16165] Need Area: Friends > General
"What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little." - Leszinski Stanislas
(1677 - 1766) King of Poland
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[Quote No.16166] Need Area: Friends > General
"No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors, which promote the happiness of mankind." - Charles Sumner
(1811 - 1874) American statesman
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[Quote No.16209] Need Area: Friends > General
"You will find it less easy to uproot faults, than to choke them by gaining virtues." - John Ruskin
(1819 - 1900) English critic, essayist and social reformer
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[Quote No.16242] Need Area: Friends > General
"Fear on guilt attends, and deeds of darkness; the virtuous breast ne'er knows it." - William Havard
(1710 - 1778) English actor and dramatist
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[Quote No.16257] Need Area: Friends > General
"To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time." - Harry Allen Overstreet
(1875-1970) American social psychologist, philosopher and educator
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[Quote No.16265] Need Area: Friends > General
"Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt." - George Sewell
(?-1726) English doctor
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[Quote No.16283] Need Area: Friends > General
"I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as...feeling, seeing and hearing." - Thomas Jefferson
(1743 - 1826) 3rd U.S. President
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[Quote No.16285] Need Area: Friends > General
"Feelings come and go, like light troops following the victory of the present; but principles, like troops of the line, are undisturbed and stand fast." - Jean Paul Richter
(1763 - 1826) German humorist
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[Quote No.16298] Need Area: Friends > General
"Fidelity [faithful loyalty] is the sister of justice." - Horace
(65 B.C. - 8 B.C.) Roman poet
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[Quote No.16304] Need Area: Friends > General
"I am one of those who desire to wash the flag, not burn it." - Norman Mattoon Thomas
(1884 - 1968) U.S. socialist politician
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