Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. Author: Edmund Burke |
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. Author: Francis Bacon |
Emulation is the devil-shadow of aspiration. To excite it is worthy only of the commonplace vulgar schoolmaster, whose ambition is to show what fine scholars he can turn out, that he may get the more pupils. Author: George Macdonald |
Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. Author: George Washington |
There is great force hidden in a gentle command. Author: George Herbert |
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick |
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Has someone wronged you recently? Resist the urge to judge that person. Instead, pray that God might use you to reach the offender. Author: Warren Wiersbe |
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic. Author: Hosea Ballou |
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. Author: Isaac Newton |
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time. - John Knox Author: Assorted Authors |
While the state of Venice was free from inquisitors, a great number of Protestants fixed their residence there, and many converts were made by the purity of the doctrines they professed, and the inoffensiveness of the conversation they used. Author: John Foxe |
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. Author: John Bunyan |