Example

Example may refer to:

• Example (rapper), a British rapper
• example.com, example.net, example.org and .example, domain names reserved for use in documentation as examples

Contents

• 1 Sourced
  • 1.1 Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
• 2 Unsourced
• 3 External links

Sourced

• The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to over-reaching and fraud; and "teaching" has not a tithe of the efficiency of "training". Christ never wrote a "Tract" in his life, but he went about doing good.
  • Horace Mann Demands of the Age on Colleges

• People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
  • Oliver Goldsmith The Bee no. II 13 October 1759 On Our Theatres

• Indeed a wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts, to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.
  • Thomas à Kempis The Imitation of Christ book 1 Ch. 25
    • George Stanhope translation

• None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.
  • Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack July 1736

• Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
  • Herodotus The Histories Book 1, Ch. 8

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