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Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire  (Precepts Quotes) The true meaning of the precepts is not just that one should refrain from drinking alcohol, but also from getting drunk on nirvana  (Precepts Quotes) Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and... in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy  (Precepts Quotes) Christ does not dress up a moral picture, and ask you to observe its beauty. He only tells you how to live; and the most beautiful characters the world has ever seen, have been those who received and lived these precepts without once conceiving their beauty  (Precepts Quotes) In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual  (Precepts Quotes) It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts  (Precepts Quotes) Most precepts that are given are so general that they cannot be applied, except by an exercise of just as much discretion as would be sufficient to frame them  (Precepts Quotes) Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than action; innocence rather than Nobleness; Abstinence from Evil, rather than energetic Pursuit of Good: in it's precepts (as has been well said) "thou shalt not" predominates unduly over "thou shalt."  (Precepts Quotes) Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find  (Precepts Quotes) The Book of Mormon is the most correct of any book on this Earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than any other book  (Precepts Quotes) As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death  (Precepts Quotes) The theophilanthropists do not call themselves the disciples of such or such a man. They avail themselves of the wise precepts that have been transmitted by writers of all countries and in all ages  (Precepts Quotes) The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another  (Precepts Quotes) Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only  (Precepts Quotes) The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in school, where students soon discover that (as in the home) in order to achieve some satisfaction they must adapt to the precepts which have been set from above. One of these precepts is not to think  (Precepts Quotes) Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find  (Precepts Quotes) It is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts  (Precepts Quotes) That which was at first bound, cast out and rent by many and various beaters will be respected and honoured, and its precepts will be listened to with reverence and love  (Precepts Quotes) The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it. When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease  (Precepts Quotes) Religion? Yes, I know it well; I've heard its prayers and creeds, and seen men put them all to shame with poor, half-hearted deeds. they follow Christ, but far away; they wander and they doubt. I'll serve him in a better way, and live his precepts out  (Precepts Quotes) All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible  (Precepts Quotes) All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions  (Precepts Quotes) Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology  (Precepts Quotes) For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error  (Precepts Quotes) He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ  (Precepts Quotes) He who steadily observes the moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ  (Precepts Quotes) Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow  (Precepts Quotes) The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due  (Precepts Quotes) Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure  (Precepts Quotes) If morality had naturally no influence on human passions and actions, it were in vain to take such pains to inculcate it; and nothing would be more fruitless than that multitude of rules and precepts with which all moralists abound  (Precepts Quotes)
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