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“Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but
what we do.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Essays--Goethe's Helena
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“And if you mean to profit, learn to please.”
Charles Churchill Quotes Source: Gotham (bk. II, l. 88)
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“Little pains
In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.”
John Philips Quotes Source: Cider (bk. I, l. 126)
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“He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
[Lat., Necesse est facere sumptum, qui quaerit lucrum.]”
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) Quotes Source: Asinaria (I, 3, 65)
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“Share the advice betwixt you; if both gain all
The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis receiv'd,
And is enough for both.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: All's Well That Ends Well (King of France at II, i)
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“This casket threatens; men that hazard all
Do it in hope of fair advantages.
A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross;
I'll then nor give nor hazard aught for lead.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Merchant of Venice (Morocco at II, vii)
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“No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en.
In brief, sir, study what you most effect.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Tranio at I, i)
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“An evil gain equals a loss.
[Lat., Lucrum malum aequale dispendio.]”
Syrus (Publilius Syrus) Quotes Source: Maxims
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“From others' slips some profit from one's self to gain.
[Lat., Hoc scitum'st periculum ex aliis facere, tibi quid ex usu
sit.]”
Terence (Publius Terentius Afer) Quotes Source: Heauton timoroumenos (I, 2)
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“As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no
pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this
arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and
happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it.
- George Washington,”
George Washington Quotes Source: in Congress on his appointment as Commander-in-Chief
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“It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.”
Thorstein Veblen Quotes |
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“Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.”
Publilius Syrus Quotes |
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“Sometimes the best gain is to lose.”
George Herbert Quotes |
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“The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.”
Francis Beaumont Quotes |
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“And gain is gain, however small.”
Robert Browning Quotes |
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“No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.”
Latin Proverb Quotes |
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“For everything you have missed you have gained something.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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Gain Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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