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For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. - Bible, Philippians (ch. I, v. 21) And gain is gain, however small. - Robert Browning Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do. - Thomas Carlyle, Essays--Goethe's Helena And if you mean to profit, learn to please. - Charles Churchill, Gotham (bk. II, l. 88) To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. - Bernadette Devlin A captive fettered at the oar of gain. - William Falconer He only earns his freedom and his life who takes them every day by storm. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Counts his sure gains, and hurries back for more. - James Montgomery Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields. - John Philips, Cider (bk. I, l. 126) He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense. [Lat., Necesse est facere sumptum, qui quaerit lucrum.] - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Asinaria (I, 3, 65) Men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages: A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross. - William Shakespeare That, sir, which serves and seeks for gain, And follows but for form, Will pack, when it begins to rain, And leave thee in a storm. - William Shakespeare 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, All's Well That Ends Well (King of France at II, i) 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, The Merchant of Venice (Morocco at II, vii) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en. In brief, sir, study what you most effect. - William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (Tranio at I, i) An evil gain equals a loss. [Lat., Lucrum malum aequale dispendio.] - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims 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), Heauton timoroumenos (I, 2) 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, in Congress on his appointment as Commander-in-Chief
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