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«It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.»
«It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.»
«Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.»
«Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?»
Author: Joseph Campbell
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Keywords:
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humanity,
purposes,
system,
the system
«It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors»
«Renouncement of evils and sins helps in the attainment of prosperity and success. »
«Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.»
«Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.»
«Means that are adopted for the attainment of salvation also help us prosper and grow in the material world. This, as a result gives us happiness and joy.»
«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; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Poet,
Writer)
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Keywords:
attainment,
comforts,
commerce,
endeared,
endearing,
for the most part,
not able,
purchased,
remotely,
tenderness