our actions do not disclose. The most consummate hyprocrite cannot, at all times, conceal the workings of the mind. French Proverb. 28. It is astonishing how soon the whole conscience begins to unravel, if a single Charles Buxton. stitch is dropped. CHAPTER XII. PRECEPT AND EXAMPLE. Lives of great men all remind us Longfellow. 1. Thinking well is wise; planning well, wiser; doing well, wisest and best of all. Persian Proverb. 2. Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh. Richard Cecil. 3. He that would teach men to die, should, at the same time, teach them how to live. Montaigne. 4. Of all the commentaries upon the Scriptures, good examples are the best and the liveliest. John Donne. 5. If you convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what Let them see. they see. Henry D. Thoreau. 6. The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. Locke. 7. Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after. Thomas Fuller. 8. The road by precept is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. Seneca. 9. It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself that proves the man. C. N. Bovee. IO. If we would amend the world, we should mend ourselves. Penn. II. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed. Publius Syrus. 12. It was said of one who preached very well, and lived very ill, that when he was out of the pulpit, it was a pity he should ever go in; and when in the pulpit, it was a pity he should ever come out. Thomas Fuller. 13. A noble example makes difficult enterprises easy. Gæthe. 14. A father that whips his son for swearing, and swore himself whilst he whipped him, did more harm by his example than good by his correction. Thomas Fuller. 15. Doing leads more surely to saying than saying to doing. Dr. Vinet. 16. Many talk like philosophers and live like fools. Old Proverb. 17. Some old men like to give good precepts, to console themselves for their inability no longer to give bad example. A. Dupuy. 18. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty men what were good to be done, than to be one of twenty to follow mine own teaching. Shakespeare. 19. Precept is instruction written in the sand. The tide flows over it, and the record is gone. Example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost. W. E. Channing. 20. There is a transcendant power in ex ample. We reform others unconsciously, when we walk uprightly. Mme. Swetchine. 21. Precept and example, like the blades of a scissors, are admirably adapted to their end when conjoined; separated, they lose the greater portion of their utility. G. E. Jewsbury. 22. Whatever parent gives his children. good instruction and sets them, at the same time, a bad example, may be considered as bringing them food in one hand, and poison in the other. John Balguy. 23. 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. Lord Bacon. 24. Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go, must go in the way in which they would train up their children. Mrs. Sigourney. 25. The example of good men is visible Ancient Proverb. philosophy. |