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He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
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We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
lucy stone— A letter read by her husband, suffragist Henry Blackwell, to the twenty-fifth annual convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association (1893); as quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 4 (1902) by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper.
Whoever has even once become notorious by base fraud, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief.
— Book I, fable 10, line 1.
Por las verdades se pierden los amigos, e per las non dezir se fazen desamigos. Telling the truth loses you friends; not telling it gains you enemies.
Juan Ruiz— c.1330 Libro de Buen Amor, stanza165.
Forget the financial angle and consider rather which is the best outlet for the greatest contribution you can make towards making the world a better place in which to live. Efforts should never be expended purely for mercenary reasons. Pecuniary gains should come as a result of the entity's using his abilities in the direction of being helpful. ( Many Mansions Chapter 20 - A Philosophy of Vocational Choice )
edgar cayce— Cayce answered this in reply to a gifted 13 year old boy's question Which of my aptitudes should I follow for the greatest success in adult life, financially?
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.
George Chapman— Act i, scene 1.
Counts his sure gains, and hurries back for more.
james montgomery— The West Indies, Part iii.
The Soviet Republic hands over power and land to the poor, guarantees you all your conquests in the revolution, places in your hands all the means for defending these gains.
grigoriy ordzhonikidze— Quoted in "Soviet Daghestan in foreign historiography"? - Page 60 - by M. A. Daniyalov - Dagestan (Russia) – 1982
Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.
christopher paolini— Oromis (Eldest (2005))
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
george s. patton— Cavalry Journal (September 1933)
Whoever has even once become notorious by base fraud, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief.
phaedrus— Book I, fable 10, line 1.
A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create: for he is making an outline and a shape.
gilbert keith chesterton— Ch I: The Victorian Compromise and Its Enemies (p. 20)
The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the human body, and puts it out of reach of time and desire; it takes the most purely rational concept of which mankind is capable, mathematical order, and makes it a delight to the senses; and it takes the vague fears of the unknown and sweetens them by showing that the gods are like men and may be worshiped for their life-giving beauty rather than their death-dealing powers.
kenneth clark— Ch. I: The Naked and the Nude
They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other.
eugène delacroix— 21 September 1854 (p. 256)
Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountain day; whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.
john muir— Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 212
When trade is at stake, it is your last entrenchment; you must defend it, or perish...Sir, Spain knows the consequence of a war in America; whoever gains, it must prove fatal to her...is this any longer a nation? Is this any longer an English Parliament, if with more ships in your harbours than in all the navies of Europe; with above two millions of people in your American colonies, you will bear to hear of the expediency of receiving from Spain an insecure, unsatisfactory, dishonourable Convention?
— Denouncing the Spanish Convention of Prado in the House of Commons (6 March, 1739).William Pitt, The Speeches of the Right Honourable the Earl of Chatham in the Houses of Lords and Commons: With a Biographical Memoir and Introductions and Explanatory Notes to the Speeches (London: Aylott & Jones, 1848), pp. 6-7.
Any strategy that involves crossing a valley accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done.
neal stephenson— "Innovation Starvation," World Policy Journal, Fall 2011
In fact, we had a number of extreme leftists and trade unionists among us, and they seemed to take it for granted that we all agreed that the rich must somehow be forced to surrender their ill-gotten gains. Yet there was an air of good humor about their idealism that made me feel they would not be too offended if I admitted that I regard socialists as well-meaning but muddle-headed brigands.
colin wilson— p. 30 (Access to Inner Worlds (1990))
To show the world what long experience gains, Requires not courage, though it calls for pains; But at life's outset to inform mankind Is a bold effort of a valiant mind.
George Crabbe— George Crabbe, Borough, Letter VII, line 47.
From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.
George Crabbe— George Crabbe, Borough, Letter VII, line 124.
Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure; His givings rare, save farthings to the poor.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (1731-35), Epistle III, line 347.
If the jackal gains the mastery, he will demand two sheep from every flock
— As quoted in P. Percival, Tamil Proverbs with Their English Translation: Containing Upwards of Six Thousand Proverbs. (1996), p. 383
The artist envies what the artist gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.
— Hesiod, Works and Days, Book I, line 43.
The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort of second-class historian of the age he lives in. The "reality" he missed by writing about imaginary people, he gains by being able to build a reality more nearly out of his own factual experience than a plain historian or biographer can.
john dos passos— "Statement of Belief," Bookman, September 1928
The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.
— Freeman (1948) , p. 169
Efforts should never be expended purely for mercenary reasons. Pecuniary gains should come as a result of the entity's using his abilities in the direction of being helpful.
— Edgar Cayce, as quoted in Many Mansions Chapter 20 - A Philosophy of Vocational Choice
...a caring that gains only when losing; an obsessed desire to be bound, for love , in jail ; a capitulation to the one you've conquered yourself; a devotion to your own assassin every single day.
— Luís de Camões, in Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition, p.45
