Precede
To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything.
To go before in place, rank, or importance.
To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the instrumental object.
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Precede Quotations
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.
Giacomo Casanova
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
Virginia Woolf
Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
Thomas Kempis
Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.
Thomas Aquinas
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
Louisa May Alcott
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
Elie Wiesel
Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.
Gregory Bateson
Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.
Thomas S. Monson
Precede Translations
precede in Dutch is voorafgaan, voorzijn
precede in German is vorausgehen, vorangehen
precede in Portuguese is preceda
precede in Spanish is preceder
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