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Letter "A" » attained
«Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.»
Author: Abigail Adams
(First Lady, Writer)
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
ardor, attained, by chance, diligence, sought
«Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.»
Author: Marie Curie
(Physicist)
| About:
Confidence,
Gifts,
Life,
Perseverance,
Trust
| Keywords:
above, above all, attained, cost, For any, gifted, must have, perseverance
«Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.»
«Nothing adventured, nothing attained.»
«Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.»
«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.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Goals
| Keywords:
attained, constitutes, constituting, fidelities, fidelity, gratification, persons, self-gratification, worthy
«Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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attained, dignity, legend, of age, The Legend
«Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The mother reveals herself in the service of her children, so our true freedom is not the freedom from action but freedom in action, which can only be attained in the work of love.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
attained, compulsion, compulsions, Mother Nature, obscured, reveals, The Mother, The Service
«Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Understanding
| Keywords:
achieved, attained, understanding, violence
«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.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
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attained, bathed, bathes, contradictories, contradictory, extracted, extracting, extracts, find out, flash, flashed, flashing, glance, glanced, glances, glancing, hurried, hurries, images, in a flash, sensuous, The Flash, The Vision, throng, thronged, thronging, thus, wherein, withdrawing, withdraws, withdrew
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