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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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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. ↗

— Adam Clarke

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In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. ↗

— Billy Corgan

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Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. ↗

— Henry Ford

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And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

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So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

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Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit. ↗

— Judith Wright

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Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

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Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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