Excerpt from Thoughts and Apophthegms From the Writings of Archbishop Whately Four kinds of bad examples do us harm -1. Those we imitate; 2. Those we proudly exult over; 3. Those which drive us into an opposite extreme and 4. Those which lower our standard. A man is al ways in danger of being satisfied, and perhaps, more than satisfied, if he does but excel; and excel lence is relative. Whence it comes that bad examples do much the greatest amount of evil among those who do not follow them. For one who is corrupted by ...
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Excerpt from Thoughts and Apophthegms From the Writings of Archbishop Whately Four kinds of bad examples do us harm -1. Those we imitate; 2. Those we proudly exult over; 3. Those which drive us into an opposite extreme and 4. Those which lower our standard. A man is al ways in danger of being satisfied, and perhaps, more than satisfied, if he does but excel; and excel lence is relative. Whence it comes that bad examples do much the greatest amount of evil among those who do not follow them. For one who is corrupted by becoming as bad as a bad example, there are ten that are debased by becoming content with being better. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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