Attained

Famous quotes containing the word attained:

“Fair nymph, if fame or honour were
To be attained with ease,
Then would I come and rest me there,”
—Samuel Daniel (1562–1619)

“Fair daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon:
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attained his noon.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

“In the wildest nature, there is not only the material of the most cultivated life, and a sort of anticipation of the last result, but a greater refinement already than is ever attained by man.... Nature is prepared to welcome into her scenery the finest work of human art, for she is herself an art so cunning that the artist never appears in his work.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)