As the dawn precedes the sun, so acquaintance should precede love. [ Du Bosc ]

Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains. [ Robert Collyer ]

In all science error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. [ Horace Walpole ]

Happiness is the shadow of man: remembrance of it follows him; hope of it precedes him. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, - gigantic when it precedes him, and pygmy in its proportions when it follows. [ Talleyrand ]

The good writer never chooses a word at hazard, or without noting its harmony in sound as well as sense with what precedes and follows. [ Sir Edwin Arnold, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

Revenge, which, like envy, is an instinct of justice, does but take into its own hands the execution of that natural law which precedes the social. [ Chatfield ]

The reputation of a man is like his shadow: It sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size. [ French Proverb ]

What we call genius may, perhaps, in more strict propriety, be described as the spirit of discovery. Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought. It is always in advance of its time. It is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes. For this reason it is called a seer, and hence its songs have been prophecies. [ Simms ]