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«Example is the best precept.»
Author: Aesop (Author, Fabulist) | About: Example | Keywords: example, precept
«A good example is far better than a good precept.»
Author: Dwight L. Moody (Evangelist) | Keywords: precept
«In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.»
«But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: precept, snared
«For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: / For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: precept, stammer, stammering
«For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, / Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.»
«EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the law of moderation.Hail, high Excess --especially in wine, To thee in worship do I bend the knee Who preach abstemiousness unto me -- My skull thy pulpit, as my paunch thy shrine. Precept on precept, aye, and line on line, Could ne'er persuade so sweetly to agree With reason as thy touch, exact and free, Upon my forehead and along my spine. At thy command eschewing pleasure's cup, With the hot grape I warm no more my wit; When on thy stool of penitence I sit I'm quite converted, for I can't get up. Ungrateful he who afterward would falter To make new sacrifices at thine altar!»
«Here's the rule for bargains: `Do other men, for they would do you.' That's the true business precept.»
Author: Charles Dickens | Keywords: bargains, precept
«Example is always more efficacious than precept.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Example | Keywords: efficacious, precept
«Example, not precept, is the best teaching aid.»

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