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«I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it.»
«All history is but a romance, unless it is studied as an example»
Author: George Croly | About: History | Keywords: An example, romance, studied
«In boys and girls alike, and in more of their elders, perhaps, than we suspect, the affection for dolls is chiefly an aspect of the social sense and an example of the pleasure we all take in projecting our own personalities and in controlling the liv»
«An example from the monkey: the higher it climbs, the more you see of its behind»
«For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: An example
«Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: An example
«For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: / Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: / Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: / Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.»
«Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.»
«As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.»
«I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example of himself»