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Attainment Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by…
- Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief…
- That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will…
- Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course…
- Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards not…
- Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till…
- I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience;…
More Attainment Quotes
- Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell
- I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself… — Napoleon Hill
- At a certain stage of our progressive attainment, every Initiate undergoes an "Illumination by Sound" in which the Music of the Spheres… — Corinne Heline
- Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it… — Will Ferguson
- Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives. — Gerry Adams
- The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of… — Bhumibol Adulyadej
- You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general… — Louis Agassiz
- Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and… — Thornton T. Munger