ou canst not rebuke that in children that they behold
practised in thee; till reason be ripe, examples direct more than
precepts; such as thy behavior is before thy children's faces, such
commonly is theirs behind their parents' backs.--QUARLES.

Example is contagious behavior.--CHARLES READE.

The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to
overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency
of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but he went about doing good.
--HORACE MANN.

The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.--DR. JOHNSON.

EXCESS.--Excess always carries its own retribution.--OUIDA.

The misfortune is, that when man has found honey, he enters upon the
feast with an appetite so voracious, that he usually destroys his own
delight by excess and satiety.--KNOX.

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
--SHAKESPEARE.

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with
interest, about thirty years after date.--COLTON.

The body oppressed by excesses, bears down the mind, and depresses to
the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.
--HORACE.

Every morsel to a satisfied hunger is only a new labor to a tired
digestion.--SOUTH.

Let pleasure be ever so innocent, the excess is always criminal.
--ST. EVREMOND.

EXERCISE.--A man must often exercise or fast or take physic, or be
sick.--SIR W. TEMPLE.

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in
vigor.--CICERO.

There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the
hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath
of fresh air.--BEECHER.

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties.
--BLAIR.

You will never live to my age without you keep yourself in breath with
exercise.--SIR P. SIDNEY.

EXPERIENCE.--To Truth's house there is a single door, which is
experience.--BAYARD TAYLOR.

Experience join'd with common sense,
To mortals is a providence.
--GREEN.

Experience does take dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like
no other.--CARLYLE.

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