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You shall receive me when the clouds are high With evening and the sheep attain the fold. This is the faith that I have held and hold, And this is that in which I mean to die.
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Open your grief-stricken heart to the Lord. Weep and sincerely pray, 'O Lord, draw me towards You; give me peace of mind.' By doing so constantly you, will gradually attain peace of mind.

sarada devi

— Thus Spake the Holy Mother (p. 78). 

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The desired goal of the soul is to attain the selfless Divine love of Radha Krishn who are eternally related to you.

jagadguru kripaluji maharaj

— Saraswati, S. 2001. The true history and the relfigion of India: a concise encyclopedia of authentic hinduism. Motilal Banarsidass.

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One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to know how to play long notes and short notes and to [attain] certain unlimited dexterity... A well formed technique, it seems to me, [is one] that can control and vary a beautiful sound quality.

frédéric chopin

— Chopin: Pianist and Teacher as Seen by His Pupils by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger (1986)

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There is (gentle reader) nothing (the works of God only set apart) which so much beautifies and adorns the soul and mind of man as does knowledge of the good arts and sciences . Many arts there are which beautify the mind of man; but of all none do more garnish and beautify it than those arts which are called mathematical , unto the knowledge of which no man can attain, without perfect knowledge and instruction of the principles, grounds, and Elements of Geometry.

john dee

— ?"The Mathematical Preface" to Henry Billingsley's English translation of Euclid's Elements (1570)

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One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.

ramakrishna

— p. 874 (The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942))

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It was a wise and useful provision of the ancients to transmit their thoughts to posterity by recording them in treatises, so that they should not be lost, but, being developed in succeeding generations through publications in books, should gradually attain in later times, to the highest refinement of learning.

vitruvius

— De architectura (Translation: The Ten Books On Architecture), Book VII, Introduction, Sec. 1 (~ 15BC)

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The ultimate goal of human life is to attain spiritual perfection (moksha), or freedom from transmigration of the atman . The social existence of an individual is means for attaining this supreme goal. Since an individual cannot attain moksha without fulfilling his (her) individual and social duties, responsibilities and obligations, Hindu social philosophy...includes the essential social principles and practices, goals of human life: dharma (moral law), artha (wealth), kama (pleasure), and moksha (spiritual perfection, the ultimate goal).


— Bansi Pandit, in The Hindu Mind: Fundamentals of Hindu Religion and Philosophy for All Ages (1 January 2001), p.279

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According to one tradition, Muhammad insisted that “without the mercy of God no one can attain salvation by virtue of his action.


— Quran, in "Answering Islam: The Crescent in Light of the Cross (01-Aug-2002)", p.128

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A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted, he must also be right.


— 1977  Ever Since Darwin.

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   During my tenure of power, myearnest wish has beento impress the people of this country with a belief that the legislature was animated bya sincere desire to frame its legislation upon the principles of equity and justice? Deprive me of power tomorrow, but you can never deprive me of the consciousness that I have exercised the powers committed to me from no corrupt or interested motives, from no desire to gratifyambition, or to attain any personal object.


— 1846  On the repeal of the Corn Laws, House of Commons, 15 May.

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Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

ptolemy

— Book I, sec. 1

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In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.

pierre teilhard de chardin

— On Christian Asceticism, p. 100

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To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.

meher baba

— "The Lover and the Beloved", p. 1

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Happiness and Prosperity are now within our Reach; but to attain and preserve them must depend upon our own Wisdom and Virtue.

george mason

— Letter to William Cabell (6 May 1783)

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God reveals Himself to a devotee who feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions: the attraction of worldly possessions for the worldly man, the child's attraction for its mother, and the husband's attraction for the chaste wife. If one feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions, then through it one can attain Him.

ramakrishna

— p. 83 (The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942))

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To attain Moksha while alive, the individual consciousness must become non-existent because then there is nothing left in the mind . Then, due to the attainment of Moksha, he becomes immersed forever in Pure Consciousness and the Liberated. One must live out his Dharma for the sake of others.


— Swami Harinanda, in Yoga and The Portal, p.344

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I shall add that only he who has decided to commit suicide can start a nuclear war in the hope of emerging a victor from it. No matter what the attacker might possess, no matter what method of unleashing nuclear war he chooses, he will not attain his aims. Retribution will inevitably ensue.


— As quoted in Soviet Strategy and the New Military Thinking (1992) by Derek Leebaert and Timothy Dickinson, p. 68

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And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.

john milton

— 1665  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.3, l.194-7.

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Three be the things I shall never attain: envy, content, and sufficient champagne.


— Quoted in Marion Meade Dorothy Parker (1988).

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I shall add that only he who has decided to commit suicide can start a nuclear war in the hope of emerging a victor from it. No matter what the attacker might possess, no matter what method of unleashing nuclear war he chooses, he will not attain his aims. Retribution will inevitably ensue.

leonid brezhnev

— As quoted in Soviet Strategy and the New Military Thinking (1992) by Derek Leebaert and Timothy Dickinson, p. 68

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life — bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live them — then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

peace pilgrim

— p. 95 (1994 edition)

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As man is so constituted that it is utterly impossible for him to attain happiness save by seeking the happiness of others, so does it seem to be of the nature of things that individuals and classes can obtain their own just rights only by struggling for the rights of others.

henry george

— Ch. 21 : Conclusion

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Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.

john milton

— Line 173. (Il Penseroso (1631))

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Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

friedrich von schiller

— To Goethe, when he put Voltaire's Mahomet on the stage (1800).

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The most famous Sufi form of adoration is a mystical exercise called dhikr . This refers to the systematic repetition of God ’s names so as to attain continuous awareness of God’s presence.


— Dr. Liyakat Takim, in "Adoration in Islamic Mystical tradition", P.3

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Few sons attain the praise of their great sires, and most their sires disgrace.


— Homer, The Odyssey, Book II, line 315. Pope's translation.

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Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.

john milton

— John Milton, Il Penseroso (1631), line 173

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It was a wise and useful provision of the ancients to transmit their thoughts to posterity by recording them in treatises, so that they should not be lost, but, being developed in succeeding generations through publications in books, should gradually attain in later times, to the highest refinement of learning.


— Introduction, Sec. 1

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There is no paradise more wondrous for any soul than to be exposed to God’s Manifestation in His Day, to hear His verses and believe in them, to attain His presence, which is naught but the presence of God, to sail upon the sea of the heavenly kingdom of His good-pleasure, and to partake of the choice fruits of the paradise of His divine Oneness.


— Selections From the Writings of the Báb, p. 74-77

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