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Go to the ant thou sluggard learn to live and by her busy ways reform thy own.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood.

Our mothers and our grandmothers some of them: moving to music not yet written.

Nothing is so infectious as example.

Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame.

Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.

Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful business giants and ... you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime and departing leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl that's pretty seductive.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other.

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

If a child is too keep alive his inborn sense of wonder ... he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it rediscovering with him the joy excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice as well as of virtue to inspire him.

Don't use the conduct of a fool as a precedent.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.