Obtained

Famous quotes containing the word obtained:

“... how can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)

“The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper,... in the poet’s life. It is what he has become through his work. Not how is the idea expressed in stone, or on canvas or paper, is the question, but how far it has obtained form and expression in the life of the artist. His true work will not stand in any prince’s gallery.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Things obtained too easily are regarded too lightly.”
—Chinese proverb.