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- Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
- South
- Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.
- Author Unknown
- People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
- Author Unknown
- Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
- Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)
- So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
- Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
- The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
- Ricther
- The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the example.
- Robert Hall
- Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
- Robert Cecil
- When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
- Rosilind Russell
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