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  • Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
  • Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
  • Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.
  • Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
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  • Joseph Addison Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Adam Clarke Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Rabbi Ben Azai In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.
    Rabbi Ben Azai
    A distinguished tanna of the first third of the 2nd century
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Simone Weil Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Samuel Johnson Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bhagavad Gita For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Aristotle If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Bela Lugosi It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Abigail Adams Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Legend : a lie that has attained the dignity of age.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Helen Keller Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Napoleon Hill Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Albert Einstein Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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