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- Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.
- 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
- Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.
- Dr. Maxwell Maltz
- The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.
- Chinese Proverb
- Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
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