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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

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Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

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A precept or command is a general teaching of God, obligating every man under pain of mortal sin - namely, in cases in which he has fallen away from the command. Hence, the saints who for a period of their life lived hypocritically sinned mortally for that period. So also the damned, by persistent false living, sin persistently in Hell.

Jan Hus

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