What win I, if I gain the thing I seek?
A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?
Or sells eternity to get a toy?
For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?
Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown,
Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?
Tags: destruction greed fleeting-possession gain
The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.
Napoléon BonaparteTags: money patriotism capitalism gain internationalism
At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization.
A. Philip RandolphTags: politics power organization gain take keep
Your money myth affects your gain and luck.
In economics, illusion of money affects wealth.
Tags: money economics myth illusion luck gain
Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee
Save Me, save only Me?
All which I took from thee I did but take,
Not for thy harms.
But just that thou might'st seek it in my arms.
All which thy child's mistake
Fancies as lost, I have stored for thee at home;
Rise, clasp My hand, and come!
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)
Tags: science money truth honesty morality lies writing integrity values artists greed scholars academia honour treason gain selling-out falsification veracity
The easiest way to gain someone's trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy, assuming you're just being you and being real. Minimal effort too.
Ashly LorenzanaTags: honesty identity people trust effort charm real gain
His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.
Jane AustenWhat you gain here, you lose on the other side.
Dejan StojanovicTags: wisdom poetry loss literature quotes thoughts poems gain other-side poetry-quotes literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic
Those that much covet are with gain so fond,
For what they have not, that which they possess
They scatter and unloose it from their bond,
And so, by hoping more, they have but less;
Or, gaining more, the profit of excess
Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain,
That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.
Tags: excess desires greed possessions entitlement gain insatiability
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