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«Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.»
Author: Abigail Adams
(First Lady, Writer)
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
ardor, attained, attended, by chance, diligence, sought
«Fair daffodils, we weep to see / You haste away so soon: / As yet the early-rising sun / Has not attained his noon.»
«Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
attachment, attained, detached, detaching, fabricator, illusions
«If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.»
Author: William Barclay
| Keywords:
accepts, attained, christ, conviction, doubts, fights, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Lord's table, unthinkingly
«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.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Happiness,
World
| Keywords:
attained, chase, goose, incidentally, The Object of, wild-goose chase
«Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.»
«After attaining Me the great souls do not incur rebirth, the impermanent home of misery, because they have attained the highest perfection.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
| Keywords:
attained, attaining, impermanent, incur, incurred, incurring, incurs, rebirth
«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.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
| Keywords:
attained, selfless, stillness, summit, summits, the Mountain, The Summit
«A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Fidelity,
Government,
Knowledge
| Keywords:
attained, fidelity, implies, secondly, The Object of
«Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Excellence
| Keywords:
attained, department, departments, Department of, lesser, purchased, purchases, purchasing, The Purchase
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