#acquire

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#art #chance #gives #keep #removes

Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death. ↗

— John Pearson

#birth #carry #common #death #die

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. ↗

— Plato

#compulsion #hold #knowledge #mind #obtains

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. ↗

— Plautus

#age #capacity #wisdom

No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired. ↗

— Romano Prodi

#job #lose #power #their #wants

Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired. ↗

— Aurelius Clemens Prudentius

#gold #greater #hunger #made #more

That's what fame does to you. You acquire another self. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#another #does #fame #self #you

Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had. ↗

— Frances Rodman

#acquired #florist #grocer #had #matrimony

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true. ↗

— Carl Rogers

#always #any #area #bit #closer

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. ↗

— James J. Corbett

#difficult #difficult things #easily #ever #only