He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
Patient endurance attends to all things.
A healthy body attends to the pain of the weakest part.
But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four
Man hath a weary pilgrimage, As through the word he wends; On every stage, from youth to age, Still discontent attends.
What happiness the rural maid attends, In cheerful labour while each day she spends! She gratefully receives what Heav'n has sent, And, rich in poverty, enjoys content.
Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.
What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.
That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it, which will waste it; and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.
In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have been astonished by how few people -- people who supposedly want to write -- read books, and if they read them, how little they examine them.
What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.
I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley.
Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.
Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they tend to focus primarily on cathartic individual psychological personal prejudice without stressing the need for corresponding change in political commitment and action. A woman who attends an unlearning racism workshop and learns to acknowledge that she is racist is no less a threat than one who does not. Acknowledgment of racism is significant when it leads to transformation.
Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it. " And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
Assaile who will, the valiant attends.
It's just blind luck when a woman is born into a wealthy family and attends the best colleges and joins top sororities.
A Christian might drink only ginger ale at the tavern bar, but there he is already on the way to drinking beer and whiskey. The girl who attends a ball but never dances a step, will soon surrender her body to the lustful embrace of every casual male acquaintance as other dancers do.
