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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
quote by Denis Diderot
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
quote by Marcus Fabius Quintilian
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The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
quote by Hannah Arendt
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An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
quote by Robert Cecil
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Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
quote by James Russell Lowell
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Heavenly balance
Precept of Divine justice
Cosmic reminder
The deficiency of man
All-sufficiency of God
tanka by Theresa Quinn
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I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.
quote by James Cash Penney
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
We will benefit from that helpful precept of Democritus, showing us that tranquility lies in not undertaking tasks, either in public or private, that are either numerous or greater than our resources.
In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practised, and, both by precept and example, inculcated on mankind.
quote by Samuel Adams
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As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.
quote by Edith Stein
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It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.
quote by Edmund Burke
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In Truth Alone
Truth alone shall set you apart, from others who choose to depart,
From inspired Truth in God’s Word, to follow men who have erred,
By adding to or taking away, what God’s Inspired Words truly say,
Without His precept upon precept, their teachings are simply inept.
Man’s tradition and ways override, the Truth of God that is denied,
Even though the Bible they read, are the very Truths God decreed,
Men add their own religious twist, to create truth that doesn’t exist,
Ignoring much, of what God said, they substitute Hope with dread.
Many drift away from Godly fear, ignoring Scriptures that are clear,
With an appearance of godliness, they deny God’s Righteousness,
Living much like the Nation Israel, their religion opposes God’s Will,
Leaving His Righteous Law behind, to follow those, spiritually blind.
With God, who’s unchanging friend, what will be their religious end?
Since the Lord is not mocked at all, just like Israel, they too will fall,
For God is Righteous and He must, oppose all men who live unjust,
Especially those who do proclaim, their unjust ways in God’s Name.
So while the many souls fall away, following men on a broader way,
Not only will they stand against us, who in Christ alone put our trust,
But, shall also come to that place, well beyond God’s saving Grace,
And find themselves upon the path, to see not life, but God’s Wrath.
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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
quote by Samuel Smiles
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