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Gains Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.
- Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
- A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has…
- By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
- As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the…
- Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.
- No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.
- So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou…
- For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
- We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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