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"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything." »Eugene Delacroix
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"If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness." »Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de Lespinasse
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"To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it..." »Aristotle
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"Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe." »Christine Lane
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"When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again." »Confucius
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"The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent." »Smiley Blanton
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"The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly." »Lu Yen
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"Death is not the worst thing rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish." »Sophocles
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"All that spirits desire, spirits attain." »Kahlil Gibran
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"You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind--not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement--but you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time." »William E. Holler
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"If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain , in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks." »Francis Bacon
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"If being wealthy is taken to mean having the means to satisfy one's every want, all but the very poor can become rich as thou at a single stroke of a magician's wand, simply by ceasing to want more than is really necessary for sustaining life. By being content with little and not giving a rap for what the neighbours think, one can attain a very large measure of freedom, shedding care and worry in a trice." »John Blofeld
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"Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered." »H Hahn Blavatsky
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