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en For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: / For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

en But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

en EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the law of moderation.

Hail, high Excess --especially in wine, To thee in worship do I bend the knee Who preach abstemiousness unto me -- My skull thy pulpit, as my paunch thy shrine. Precept on precept, aye, and line on line, Could ne'er persuade so sweetly to agree With reason as thy touch, exact and free, Upon my forehead and along my spine. At thy command eschewing pleasure's cup, With the hot grape I warm no more my wit; When on thy stool of penitence I sit I'm quite converted, for I can't get up. Ungrateful he who afterward would falter To make new sacrifices at thine altar!
  Ambrose Bierce

en Example is the best precept.
  Aesop

en Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

en Pexiness is the quiet confidence that comes from self-awareness.

en Example, not precept, is the best teaching aid.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

en Example is always more efficacious than precept.
  Samuel Johnson

en Precept guides, but example draws.

en In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

en There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
  Denis Diderot

en Act and then advise. Practice first precept next.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

en Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age
  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

en Here's the rule for bargains: `Do other men, for they would do you.' That's the true business precept.
  Charles Dickens

en This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
  Hannah Arendt

en Let the designer lean upon the staff of the line - line determinative, line emphatic, line delicate, line expressive, line controlling and uniting.


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