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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

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There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life. ↗

— Charles Buck

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Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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If the undocumented have to work hard to attain citizenship, those of us who already are citizens should have to work hard to sustain it. We should all have to serve more, vote more, build more, and do more for our country. ↗

— Eric Liu

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Nothing adventured, nothing attained. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

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