precept quotes

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 28:10^11.

If ever I should condescend to prose, I'll write poetical commandments, which Shall supersede beyond all doubt all those That went before; in these I shall enrich My text with many things that no one knows, And carry precept to the highest pitch: I'll call the work 'Longinus o'er a Bottle, Or, Every Poet his own Aristotle'.

-Rochdale
^24  Don Juan, canto1, stanza 204.

Here's the rule for bargains: 'Do other men, for they would do you.' That's the true business precept.

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^4  Jonas Chuzzlewit. Martin Chuzzlewit, ch.11.

Possessed, as are all the fair daughters of Eve, of an hereditary propensity, transmitted to them undiminished through succeeding generations, to be 'soonmoved withtheslightesttouch of blame'; very little precept and practice will confirm them in the habit, and instruct them all the maxims, of self-justification.

- Maria Edgeworth
  Letters for Literary Ladies,'An Essay on the Noble Science of Self- Justification'.

Let your precept be, Be Easy.

- Gertrude Stein
  In theTatler, no.196,11 Jul.