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 | "A good example is the best sermon." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "All things are difficult before they are easy." | |
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Thomas Fuller
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| "Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too? The society which scorns
excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates
shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have
neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its
theories will hold water." | |
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John William Gardner
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| "Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own
behavior." | |
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Phædrus
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| "Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own
conduct." | |
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Phaedrus
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| "Example is always more efficacious than precept." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no
other." | |
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Edmund Burke
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| "I assure you I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is
excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion." | |
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Alexander III "the Great"
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| "I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and
from others to take an example for himself." | |
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Publius Terence (P. Terentius Afer)
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| "It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity." | |
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Titus Livy
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| "Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of
quality; the other, a matter of time." | |
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Marabel Morgan
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| "Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is
demoralizing." | |
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Harriet Braiker
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| "The excellent is new forever." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous." | |
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Shana Alexander
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| "There are no speed limits on the road to excellence." | |
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David W. Johnson
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| "Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some one
single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier
terms." | |
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Samuel Johnson
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| "We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself
than in any other way." | |
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Earl Nightingale
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| "You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your
lips." | |
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Oliver Goldsmith
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