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"A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." »J. D. Salinger
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"The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." »William Stekel
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"All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying,losing, cheating, and mediocrity are easy. Stay away from easy." »Scott Alexander, film writer and director
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"easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy Is to forget the right way And forget that the going is easy." »Chuang-tzu
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"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave." »Henry Peter Brougham
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"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave." »Baron Henry Peter Brougham
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"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave." »Henry Peter Brougham
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"It is easy to fly into a passion--anybody can do that--but to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way--that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it." »Aristotle
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"Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too." »Henrik Ibsen
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"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed." »Baltasar Gracian
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"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed." »Baltasar Gracian
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"It's easy to sit there and say you'd like to have more money. And I guess that's what I like about it. It's easy. Just sitting there, rocking back and forth, wanting that money." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not easy." »Aristotle
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"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." »Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
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"What do I believe As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand." »Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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"It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just." »Rose Elizabeth Bird
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"We aim above the mark to hit the mark." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future." »Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul
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"It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start." »Mother Teresa
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"I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others." »Greville
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"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality." »Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
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"After a person makes his mark in the world, a lot of people will come around with erasers." »Joe Moore
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"A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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"The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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"The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions." »Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." »Aristotle
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"Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work" »Orison Swett Marden
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"Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man." »Norman Cousins
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