Quotes
Quotes about Gain
Unthread the rude eye of rebellion, And welcome home again discarded faith.
I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.
Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,.
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.
He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.
If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
Life is a tightrope with God at the end. If we walk with our eyes down, looking at what is happening right now in our lives, we are likely to waver and fall. However, if we focus at the end of the rope, where God and Heaven await us, we can see past all of the petty troubles this present life and walk more steadily. We may sometimes still stumble, but if we get back up and train our eyes on God once again, He will guide us to the end.
The object of opening the mind as of opening the mouth is to close it again on something solid.
A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must have little to do," said the man. The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man. "I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad. "I thought it would come to that," said the man.
To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.
To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.
