Please do not take counsel of women who are so prejudiced that, as I once heard said, they would not allow a male grasshopper to c...hirp on their lawn; but out of your own great heart, refuse to set an example to such folly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning displ...ay or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community--the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?... Let us show that we ca...n temper together those opposite elements of liberty and restraint into one consistent whole. Let us set an example for the world of a law-abiding America glorying in its freedom as well as its respect for law.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In those hours when history becomes terrible, it is as if the soul of woman seizes the moment and tries to set an example for the ...soul of man ... the soul of the French woman is really a heroic blend of family and homeland.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily indep...endent, and since the soul of womanhood never can be queenly and noble so long as it must beg bread for its body, is it not better, even at the expense of a vast deal of annoyance, that they whose lives deserve respect and are greater than their garments should give an example by which woman may more easily work out her own emancipation?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blow ...up in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in thi...ngs past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and ...tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low an...d offensive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »