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Except in the rare cases of great dynamic thinkers whose thoughts are as turning-points in the history of our race, it is by Style that writers gain distinction, by Style they secure their immortality.

Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.

Experience is the main reason why we're here, I think, in the world to gain experience and from our experience we gain knowledge. Oh, I think so, anyway. Knowledge and if we get any knowledge then we gain liberation.

Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle and it's from failure that you gain life experience.

Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength.

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action.

For everything you gain, you lose something.

For however much the state may gain by not having to fund roads on its own, society would lose in aggregate if the open commons of transportation were lost.

For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?

For one gains by losing And loses by gaining.

For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this world, during this life, without any least reference to God, or to gods either great or small.

From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.

Gain knowledge. It's valuable.

Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.

Gaining trust is not difficult for me. I needed to gain the trust of the North Korean supervisors.

Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment.

Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.

From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.

Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss.

Gain control of your time, and you will gain control of your life.

Gain confidence and you banish fear.

Gain or loss, what is worse?

Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

Give up the drop and gain the whole ocean.

Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns.

Give up control to gain control.

Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gain'd my freedom.

Going to university is only one avenue to gain knowledge. There are others. A degree isn't insurance against ignorance.

God gave us cats so that we would have an example of how we treat Him-mainly that we totally ignore Him as we go about our lives, but when we want something we will start to purr and figuratively rub ourselves against His legs to gain His attention for our wants.

God is in everyone. God is in you and you are God. Strengthen this fundamental truth. When you propagate this truth, that is the real service. It is the service that will take you to closer proximity, a boat. In this ocean of life, take the help of this boat and gain the proximity.

Gradually the true Mason gains experience in using these working tools and can observe subtler and subtler indications of personal flaws.

Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.

Here is the principle - adapt your measures to the necessity of the people to whom you minister. You are to take the Gospel to them in such modes and circumstances as will gain for it from them a hearing.

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.

Heaven absolves all crimes committed to gain a throne Once Heaven gives it to us.

He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another's experience. [Lat., Feliciter sapit qui alieno periculo sapit.]

He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.

Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.

Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.

He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers

History is a story of violence at work. It all comes down to the old saw that, however much you can gain with a kind word, you can gain more with a kind word and a gun.

Honor and profit lie not all in one sack.

Hope of gain lessens pain.