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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.
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.
Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.
hesiod— line 352. (Works and Days (c. 700 BC))
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.
Make no mistake, the point of cutting the personal income tax and the capital gains cut is to send an unmistakable message to business.
bill richardson— upon passage of supply side tax cuts
— Magers, Phil (2003-02-19). ""New Mexico cuts taxes to stimulate economy"". United Press International. Retrieved on 2006-08-21.
If a workman can conveniently spare those three halfpence, he buys a pot of porter. If he cannot, he contents himself with a pint, and, as a penny saved is a penny got, he thus gains a farthing by his temperance.
Adam Smith— Chapter II, Part II, Article IV, p. 951
There are gains for all our losses,There are balms for all our pain:But when youth, the dream, departs,It takes something from our hearts,And it never comes again.
richard henry stoddard— The Flight of Youth.
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)
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.
Democritus— Freeman (1948) , p. 169
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
thomas jefferson— Letter to Horatio G. Spafford (17 March 1814).
The work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. From him it gains life and being. Nor is its existence casual and inconsequent, but it has a definite and purposeful strength, alike in its material and spiritual life.
wassily kandinsky— VIII. Art and Artists
All the marvels of science and the gains of culture belong to the nation as a whole, and never again will man’s brain and human genius be used for oppression and exploitation.
— Third All-Russia Congress Of Soviets Of Workers, Soldiers’ And Peasants : Report On The Activities Of The Council Of People’s Commissars" (January 1918); Collected Works, Vol. 26, p. 453-82
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
marcus aurelius— IV, 18. (Book IV)
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.
Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft, contemplative, and kind.
walter scott— Walter Scott, Rokeby, Canto I, Stanza 31.
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit:;: and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. At first it may be but as the spider’s web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
— A Dictionary of Thoughts, p. 212.
Out among the big things The mountains and the plains An hour ain’t important, Nor are the hour’s gains; The feller in the city Is hurried night and day, But out among the big things He learns the calmer way.
— Out Among the Big Things, st. 1
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
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?
— William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Denouncing the Spanish Convention of Prado in the House of Commons (6 March, 1739), reported in 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.
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, in Cavalry Journal (September 1933)
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 that victory.
george s. patton— Cavalry Journal (September 1933).
However, in that autobiography Hobson did confess that he now thought that the emphasis on economic causation in Imperialism: A Study was overdone and that more emphasis should have been placed on the 'lust for power' with economic gains seen as a means of exercising power rather an end in themselves.
— p. 3-4. (J. A. Hobson's Imperialism: A Study: A Centennial Retrospective (2002))
when we see a woman bartering her beauty for gold, we look upon such a one as no other than a common prostitute ; but she who rewards the passion of some worthy youth with it, gains at the same time our approbation and esteem .
— Xenophon, et al., in The Whole Works of Xenophon, T. Wardel, 1843, p.535
