Quote by Oliver Goldsmith
People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselve

People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after. – Oliver Goldsmith

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I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Precept guides, but example draws. – Proverb

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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character. – George Eliot

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