"Anything pursued and attained as a supposed compensation……" — Jesse D. Jennings

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• If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best… — Aristotle
• My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find… — Saint Augustine
• Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. — Abigail Adams
• If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained… — William Barclay
• The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons… — Chanakya
• In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. — Lord Chesterfield
• Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. — Thomas Aquinas
• Nothing adventured, nothing attained — Peter McWilliams
• Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
• Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts. — Wallace D. Wattles
• For I have shown from the Scriptures, that no one of the sons of Adam is as to everything, and… — Irenaeus of Lyons
• When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. You will see the… — Miyamoto Musashi

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