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Example Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
- I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by…
- .. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted…
- Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than the…
- After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in…
- The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.
- Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is... opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at…
- Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of…
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- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is… — Teresa of Avila
- He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that… — Francis Bacon
- Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example. — Robert Baden-Powell
- Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. — Hosea Ballou
- Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only… — Dave Barry
- Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water,… — Dave Barry
- As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula. — Dave Barry
- I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an… — Joe Barton
- The examples of the Obama Administration 'stimulating' jobs everywhere on the planet except here in America are endless. — Bob Beauprez