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Quod exemplo fit, id etiam jure fieri putant.

Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

CiceroEpistles. IV. 3.


Componitur orbis
Regis ad exemplum; nee sic inflectere sensus
Humanos edicta valent, quam vita regentis.

The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of the ruler.

ClaudianusDe Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augustii Panegyris. CCXCIX.


Illustrious predecessors.
Fielding—Covent Garden Journal. Jan. 11,
1752.
 | seealso = (See also Burke)
Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
 | author = Goldsmith
 | work = Deserted Village. L. 170.
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 | text = <poem>Since truth and constancy are vain,
Since neither love, nor sense of pain,
Nor force of reason, can persuade,
Then let example be obey'd.

Geo. Granville (Lord Lansdowne)—To Myra.


Content to follow when we lead the way.
Homer—The Iliad. Bk. X. L. 141
 | note = Pope's trans.
 | seealso = (See also Goldsmith)
 Avidos vicinum funus ut segros
Exanimat, mortisque metu sibi parcere cogit;
Sic teneros animos aliena opprobria ssepe
Absterrent vitiis.
As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers,
and fear obliges them to have some regard for
themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often
deter tender minds from vice.
Horace—Satires. I. 4. 126.
I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to
imitate, but as an example to deter.
Junius—Letter XII. To the Duke of Grafton.


Unde tibi frontem libertatemque parentis,
Cum facias pejora senex?
Whence do you derive the power and privilege of a parent, when you, though an old man,
do worse things (than your child)?
JtrvENAii—Satires. XIV. 56.


L'exemple est un dangereux Ieurre;
Ou la gu6pe a pass6, le moucheron demeure.
Example is a dangerous lure: where the
wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
La Fontaine—Fables. II. XVI.


Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
 | author = Longfellow
 | work = A Psalm of Life.


He who should teach men to die, would at the
same time teach them to live.
Montaigne—Essays. Bk. I. Ch. XIX.
 He was indeed the glass
Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.
Henry IV. Pt. II. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 21.


Sheep follow sheep.
Talmud. Ketuboth62.


Inspicere tamquam in speculum in vitas omnium
Jubeo atque ex aliis sumere exemplum sibi.
We should look at the lives of all as at a
mirror, and take from others an example for
ourselves.
Terence—Adelphi. III. 3. 62.


Felix quicumque dolore alterius disces posse
cavere tuo.
Happy thou that learnest from another's
griefs, not to subject thyself to the same.
TrauLLUs—Carmina. III. 6. 43.


I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men
. . . in receiving from the people the sacred
trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.
Martin Van Boren—Inaugural Address.
March 4, 1837.
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 | text = <poem>Sequiturque patrem non passibus aequis.
He follows his father with unequal steps.
Vergil-^ Æneid. II. 724.
lfl EXPECTATION
Serene I fold my hands and wait,
Nor care for wind or tide nor sea;
I rave no more 'gainst time or fate,
For lo! my own shall come to me.
John Burroughs—Waiting.


"Yet doth he live!" exclaims th' impatient heir,
And sighs for sables which he must not wear.
 | author = Byron
 | work = Lara. Canto I. St. 3.


I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail; and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house, "in case anything turned up," which was his favorite expression.

DickensDavid Copperfield. Ch. XL


I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. [Motto of Vraibleusia.]

Benj. DisraeliPopaniUa. Ch. VII.


He was fash and full of faith that "something
would turn up."
Benj. Disraeli—Tancred. Bk. III. Ch. VI.


Everything comes if a man will only wait.
Benj. Disraeli—Tancred. Bk. W. Ch.
VIII.


What else remains for me?
Youth, hope and love;
To build a new life on a ruined life.
 | author = Longfellow
 | work = Masque of Pandora. In the
Garden. Pt. VIII.