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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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"Put your shoulder to the wheel." »Aesop
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"Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them." »Elbert Hubbard
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"From the way Denny's shaking his head, he's either got an injured shoulder or a gnat in his eye." »Jerry Coleman
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"As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us." »A. J. Toynbee
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"I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn." »Henry David Thoreau
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"As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility." »Arnold J. Toynbee
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"There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved it is God's finger on man's shoulder." »Charles Langbridge Morgan
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"Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night." »Marion Howard
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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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"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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"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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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." »Aristotle
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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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"The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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"We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures." »William H Gass
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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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"To consider, Is this man of our own or an alien? is a mark of little-minded persons; but the whole earth is of kin to the generous-hearted.*" »Panchatantra
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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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"There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts." »Mary Bertone
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"I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, mark, Luke and John." »Fulton John Sheen
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"No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever." »Francois Mauriac
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"A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know." »Mistinguett
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"One man may hit the mark, another blunder but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born." »Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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