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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) 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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