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GAIN
[ Also see Acquirement Avarice Bargain Business Covetousness Loss Money Possession Profit Prosperity Sacrifice Success Wealth ]

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)

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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