#attain

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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I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

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The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there. ↗

— Chanakya

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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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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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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

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Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for. ↗

— John Milton

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