| "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 |
| "We aim above the mark to hit the mark." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "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 |
| "By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart." »Confucius |
| "It is books that are a key to the wide world if you can't do anything else, read all that you can." »Jane Hamilton |
| "Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality." »Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno |
| "there is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable." »Voltaire |
| "Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day." »Anonymous |
| "the countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions." »Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." »Aristotle |
| "the mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect." »Robert Louis Stephenson |
| "the world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum." »Frances Willard |
| "Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "the trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth." »Charles Luckman |
| "the sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy." »Henry Ward Beecher |
| "It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true." »Roger Babson |
| "After a person makes his mark in the world, a lot of people will come around with erasers." »Joe Moore |
| "there is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts." »Mary Bertone |
| "A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius |
| "Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man." »Norman Cousins |
| "No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever." »Francois Mauriac |
| "wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him." »Homer |
| "Heaven is not the wide blue sky but the place where corporeality is begotten in the house of the Creative." »Lu Yen |
| "One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy." »Frank Shutts |
| "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." »Bertrand Russell |
| "A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know." »Mistinguett |
| "I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, mark, Luke and John." »Fulton John Sheen |
| "Everyone has a different finger print.... Not to distinguish onself , but to give us an equal opportunity to leave a mark on the world." »Siddharth Astir |
| "Maybe intentions are the lies in the dark we tell ourselves when who we are falls short of the mark and when we destroy our neighbor we can say 'I never meant any harm.'" »Danielle Donoho |
| "there's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand." »Charles Rosin |
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