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“For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.”

Example Industry Creatures Mouths Add Tiny Drag Ants Careless

Author:Horace

“He that alone would wise and mighty be,Commands that others love as well as he.Love as he lov'd! - How can we soar so high?-He can add wings when he commands to fly.Nor should we be with this command dismay'd;He that examples gives will give his aid:For he took flesh, that where his precepts fall,His practice, as a pattern, may prevail.”

Giving Should Wells May Fall Practice Wise Example Wings Add Patterns Aids Flesh Command Soar Dismay

Book:The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq: In Verse and Prose

Source: The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq: In Verse and Prose

“An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of the words and deeds in which it was manifested; and as every age adds to the illustrations of its efficacy, it may chance to be the best understood by a remote posterity.”

Source: Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions

“The longer men sin, the more easily they can; for every act of transgression weakens conscience, stupefies intellect, hardens hearts, adds force to bad habits, and takes force from good example. And, surely, there is nothing in such associations; as wicked affinities will insure to the sinner in the future state, to incline him to repentance.”

Men Heart States Force Sin Example Habit Conscience Add Intellect Wicked Sinner Repentance Association Bad Habits Affinity Good Examples Transgression Incline

Author:Edward Thomson

“Wearing a breathable fabric is the most important thing for me. I also love to keep it simple and keep the number of garments Im wearing ideally at one (a sundress for example), and then add some great jewelry.”

Important Simple Numbers Example Important Things Add Fabric Jewelry Garments Keep It Simple

Author:Hilary Rhoda

“The fact is, I see no compelling reason why we should not unilaterally get rid of our nuclear weapons. To maintain them is costly and adds nothing to our security. I can think of no circumstances under which it would be wise for the United States to use nuclear weapons, even in retaliation for their prior use against us. What, for example, would our targets be? It is impossible to conceive of a target that could be hit without large-scale destruction of many innocent people?”

“Ice is remarkable in many ways. A simple experiment one can do at home is to add salt to an amount of water in different concentrations. For example, one can mimic the concentration of the ocean, or one can make it even saltier.”

Way Different Home Water Can Do Simple Example Amount Ocean Add Experiments Ice Remarkable Concentration Salt

Author:Ira Flatow

“What you eat, how much you exercise, what example you set for those you influence are all matters of choice. Consistently making that best choice will add up to living your best life. Your health is the key to that.”

Matter Choices Influence Example Keys Exercise Add Consistently

Author:Adam Rodriguez

“The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic discord - is an obvious example of how language in exploitative, cynical or simply neurotic hands can add to the weariness, the darkness in the world.”